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COJVTENTS. 
MATTER AND MIND 

OR 

IMMORTALITY. 
Fart JJ.-GRAPHIC & HUMOROUS PEN-PORTRAITS 



Part I.— 



A Lecture. 




For Sale ty PH. ROEDES, Bookseller, 322 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. 

FFIICE, 25 CEXsTXS. 

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Entered according to Act of Conirress in the jenr 1881 by WILLIAM BUSH, in the office of 
the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. 




MATTER AKD MIND, 

IMMORTALITY. 

Delivered by Wm. Bush, Esq., before the St. Louis 
Liberal League. 

Ladies and Gentlemen: — 1 am not here to teach you something new. 
I desire simply to present to you some of the pebbles .acathered here and there 
on the hoary shore of Time, containing some suggestions and deductions by 
your humble servant. 

What is matter ? And secondly : What relation does mind sustain to or- 
ganism in this life and in the hereafter? We speak here of matter as popu- 
larly understood — that which we recognize with our senses; that is: see and 
feel it. That something which occupies space, has form and weight. But 
the two senses of seeing and.feeling are not the only ones by which we recog- 
nize matter ; though these are the principal monitoi s which make us ac- 
quainted with the presence of matter in its grosser form — yet we find that 
the other three senses — as smelling, hearing and tasting, apprise us of the ob- 
jective world around us. By the ear we recognize matter in motion, as it-— 
through its effect ' sound,' enters the auricular tube and strikes the audi- 
tory nerve with its drum and its drum-sticks— which latter then apprise the 
sensorium of the mission, and nature of the approaching object — its shape, 
rapidity, and in what direction it comes. As soon as a projectile has left its 
place of rest and has entered the arena of the atmosphere, it sets in motion 
the particles in the air— which are in its course — and the result is sound ; tor 
it is only by the friction of the moving particles that sound is produced — 
to-wit: by the law of repulsion and attraction — negative and positive forces, 
otherwise known as the centripedal and centrifugal forces. The quality of 
the force depends on the nature of the projectile — whether hard or soft, pol- 
ished or rough faced; whether round or angular, and thus accordingly will 
also be its sound; either shrill, or flat. The velocity and quality of the sound 
depends further on the medium it travels through, whether the air is dense or 
rare— dry or wet. So in taste: through ihe palate we classify the property 
of matter which comes in contact with it; whether it is sweet or bitter — 
luscious or tart. So the olfactory nerves are agents which apprise the intellect 
of the presence and of the kind of matter. The fragrance of the lily or rose, 
which embalms the morning air of spring, is matter exhaled from their chal- 
ices, and on a zephyr carried to your nasal organ. Yet in all the three latter 
cases we taste, .hear, smell the presence of matter by its effect — yet to our naked 
eye it remains invisible — Thus we find that the air is one great ocean of moving 
matter which like a midnight. spectre recedes ; as you approach. To-day , chemists 
separate tlie air in its two main component parts, to-wit: oxygen and hydro- 
gen — if they were not matter how could they be divided? Nay even more — 
nowadays scientists have succeeded by virtue of chemical agents and ma- 
chinery to reduce the various parts of air and gases to liquids and from thence 
to matter — tangible to the feeling and visible to the naked eyes. This is a 
world of matter — some is opaque, some light, some solid, others liquid, 
some bulky, others attenuated ; and invisible under certain conditions, all teem- 
ing with life. There lives and has its being in air, water and earth, a world 
of animal life not visible to the eye; with its myriads of animalcules which 
through the microscope we behold. Nay, look at that morning sun-beam 
which enters your chamber through an open shutter, you will find that it 
teems with life. Thus this Universe is one mass of matter, sometimes for 
convenience called organic and inorganic — reduced and classilied into G4 
primary elements, which in their various combinations give divers produc- 
tions and exhibit different phenomena. Heat and Light, a property of mat- 
ter, are likewise the moulders of nature— its creative agents — as well as 
the destroyers of anirfial and vegetable life. Heat in its laboratory of com- 
bustion — latent or tangible, dark or luminous, while it destroys organ- 
ization, form, and life, at the same moment hatches the germs for new organ- 
ization and new life, in place of that destroyed. We must speak of in- 
organic matter cum grano salis. Mostly all matter is organic ; dilFerent sub- 
stances are combined by cohesion, accretion, growth, or vitalization ; 
and the elements are few which are pure and uacombined. Although 



(2) chemistry can reduce this heterogeneous mass to its simple property, 
vet these simple elements do not remain long pure and inorganic, but 
form soon again a compound \vith some other matter and tlie process ot organ- 
ization-to create a new being— at onc3 begins. When we speak of organic 
and inorganic matter, we have simply reference to the more or less combina- 
tion, and the degree and time in which motion and growth is manifested, in 
the mineral world it is manifested by accretion caused by aquatic, atmos- 
pheric and caloric agencies. In the vegetable world organism is manitestecl 
Hi the shape of growth, prompted by the combined action of heat, liglit, 
water, air, and tfie power ot absorption ; thus here organic torm becomes 
more diversifled, more primary objects have gathered together and are 
more artisticallv combined. In consequence whereof vegetation raanitests 
more potent and beautiful phenomena. And here we see a visible step to- 
wards voluntary motion and Life; for in some instances certain kmds ot 
plants grow almost perceptible to the vision of the observer, ^lay more, 
some of these plants are the connecting links between animal life and tlie 
o-rosser forms of vegetation. Behold the sea anemones, polyps, tube nowers, 
five coral, sponge, etc., which belong half to the vegetable and halt to 
the animal kin"-dora. These tiny, cylindrical, funnel forms appear outward 
to be sei weeds, or flowers, yet some of them propagate by ova, nay,_ seem 
to have developed the sense of fear and precaution. For you see it in tne 
water move ahiiost imperceptibly, with delicate contractions avd expansions, 
vet if you anproach too close and di-^turb the water it will, like magic, dis- 
appear to its hollow cell, from which it had protruded to breathe and seek 
nourishment in the water. In the animal kingdom organic form has reached 
its hi'^hest tvpe, being mOre homogeneous in the lower order of brute crea- 
tion, and heterogeneous in that of man. Man contains all the elenipnts ot 
nature, therefore he is the epitome ot the universe. Complex in combination 
and therefore heterogeneous in character and function. Having to some ex- 
tent discussed matter and some of its relations and functions to organized 
life, we now proceed to the metaphysical question— What is mind .-' I lament 
that we still reo-ard mental faculties, as pertaining to the metaphysical--still 
inferential, hypothetical and Utopian— something beyond nature. I have 
come to the conclusion that mind cannot be found beyond nature: but in 
nature. That soul, mind and spirit are synonymous terms, that there is no 
difference of Mnd among them, that it is only a difference of degree and ex- 
pression. Nav, that this subtle and sublimated agent called ramd, causing 
man's breast to heave with joy or sorrow, is but an attribute of tlie worlU s 
Creator, and that each individual mind is a timi in the great sum of an ali-con- 
ti'oliii'«- intclliocnce. The bible even says: "that God made man in his 
own imao-e." If so, then we must possess the same attribute^ and gen.is 
of possibility possessed bv our Creator. Yet we are told Adam and Eve fell. 
But an all wise Creator must have -known before that such would be the case, 
as the maker of a musical instrument must know its capacities and taults. 
Why then punish that which he had desi*ned? Besides, the bible does 
not relate that God did, after ejecting him from paradise, change raan in 
his physical, mental, or moral qualities. According to its account fie 
simply liiid an embargo on the enioyment and idleness of man ; and bade 
him to eat his bread by the swedt of his brow. Before Adam and Eve s 
fall thev had no children, and nobody else (according to biblical bis- 
torv) shared the tropical luxuries and pleasures of Paradise— s^ vast ui 
its "area. Should they solitary and alone enjoy these things i Only alter 
the curse they began to work and to multiply themselves, i cannot conceive 
tlie pleasure! and happiness Adam and Eve could have in Paradise. A 
life of inertia and idleness seems to xao a burden instead of a pleasure, in 
addition, they hved in Paradise objectless, aimless and solitary, no sentient 
bcino- to communicate with. Even Eve, before the fall, could be oi no pleas- 
ure to Adam, because she was no mate to him. Her mission m life was only 
discovered after they fell, as narrated in the bible. God could have never in- 
tended to create such an objectless and aimless creation and creatures. ^tOC. 
created men for activity, for production, to multiply, to be a ftictor in shaping 
this worlds natural agencies, powers and functions. In cultivating bis so- 
cial moral and intellectual nature so as to come nearer enrapport witli the 
fountain head from which he sprang. ■ Man in so doing Avill enjoy happiness. 
\ud for such objects it will be worth living. God could not have intended 
'^hat the Siiints shall in all eternity sit down and sing psalms. Never, never. 
It is a f\ict that now, and for long years past, in and around Hamburg and 
alono^ the sea coast the priests devoutly pray for storm and shipwreck (which 
thev^call ' strand segen,') in order that the fishermen and coasters a .ong the 
shore mio-lifc be enriched by the spoils which they could fish up. Thus celes- 
ti'^1 power is everywhere invoked to devour another and exult oneself 

"o' late years tlie tone of the pulpit has considerably changed for the best. 
In tact it could not have done otherwise, as the masses of the people have be- 
come more intelligent and liberal. The silent motor, the press, ever since it 
made its debut— through Gutenberg— has made war on the tenants of super- 
stition. Ancl it>-the press— has been the educator, best friend and liberator 



of tlie people. We want the church of to-day take more the character of (3) 
an educational institution, be more like a common quasi-home of the people, 
where they can gratify their social and religious instincts and desires ; 
where their moral character can be guided, where their intellect wiU be eii- 
lio-iitened We want the minister to be more of a teacher, so that man will pe 
better able to live in harmony with nature, and to discharge his social duties 
towards his. fellow man and thereby diminish the amount of m'-sery now ex- 
isting'. That man wiU learn to understand the laws of hfe and ot the cosmos, 
and consequently live longer and happier. It is better to teach and learn 
matters which pertain to our mundane sphere than speculate and Avorry our- 
selves to death about the hereafter, from which we cannot escape, detract, or 
add an iota to. I wean, any how, that our hereafter will very much depend, 
whether we had here a healthy soul and body, lived a long ana happy hie, 
whether our morals had been pure and our intellects clear. According to 
these facts we will be grouped on the various stages ot being in the hereafter. 
In short we need more humanitarianism. We want sound teachers to culti- 
vate the intellectual and spiritual man. A good many churches yet blaze 
with heU, though they difler when it comes to locate hell, borne say it is in 
Gehena: another, below the earth, just at the opening of a volcanic crater; 
another, under the Laus Avernus; another in the sun, etc. Probably the 
latter place begot the idea, that it was a tolerably hot sort of a place, i nave 
come to the conclusion that aU of hell we have is right among us. We all 
have experienced more or less of it here, and some men (or women either) 
so much of it that, at least for 2 or 3 generations, they ought to enjoy heaven. 
It is here where we meet the demons of war, ignorance, jealousy, envy, dis- 
cord and hatred: and it is here where we ought to manacle them and banisli 
them from among us. We want harmony ; the music of the soul, l^ilse 
Eurvdice who had been carried away by the god of heU, was brought back 
by Orpheus wirh his lyre; as Ixion forgot his wheel by listening to such be- 
wildering' music; Tantalus forgot his thirst; Pluto smiled fJid the Furies 
wept tears; so by eradicating these evils we ^^-ill escape hell.; We need a 
more healthy, harmonious development of body, the toundation of a well 
balanced brain and sound intellect. Your criminals are only half and dis- 
proportioned developed beings ; which they have partly inherited, or acquired 
by a destructive mode of living, or both. Penitentiaries ought theretore to 
be reformatories, instead of institxitions swinging the iron hand of vengeance 
and punishment. To this goal of liberty and harmony, mankind is marching 
on; freed from the shackles of superstitions and ignorance, io-day there 
are only comoaratively few blind sheep left in the environs of civihzation; 
who beUeve in the tale that Adam was fashioned out of clay like an earthen 
vessel in the potter's field, and that Eve was taken from his ribs. 
Nature and the all controling ruler seem to actby immutable and unerring laws 
in all their departments. The seasons come and go at the regular time, vege- 
tation blooms and decays in its regular season, man when he has reached a 
certain ao-e and his organs become decayed, passes from this stage of action. 
Nay, astronomv teaches us that millions of worlds move in their grooves with 
the exactness o*^f vour time-piece. Thus we come to doubt the doctrines of 
miracles. The ancients called the soul animus, and the mind pneuhma. i hey 
said the former was mortal, and the latter immortal. This has been all along 
the doctrine. When receiving spiritual instruction, as a boy, from my parish 
pastor, I was taught the same doctrine, '' that the soul was mortal and that it 
was only a function possessed bv animals; while man possessed, m addition, 
an immortal mind." This pastor of mine had formulated a small pamphlet 
containino' maxims, which were rather broad and too rational for the doc- 
trines of the church ; which he sought to inculcate in our young minds ; to 
learn us, I supose, in after life to shoot the mark. And 1 give him credit for 
it. I have, however, since commenced to doubt the proposition that the soul 
is mortal, that it is something different in kind from mind, and that the animal 
Avorld has nothing but a soul, whose helm is instinct, ■ Practical observation 
shows that the boundary line between soul and mind, is rather shado^\T and 
difficult to define. Personally I have come to the conclusion that, there is no 
diflerence of kind between them ; but it is simply one of degre^. 1 he ammal 
kin'^dom has been denied the faculty of so verbose an expression and speech 
as that with which man is endowed. Their actions may seem to the casual 
observer to be prompted by instinct. Yet, tested by the light of common 
sense and observation, we find that the action and expression of the ammal 
world betokens intellect, mind, and reasoning faculties. Hundreds of facts 
and incidents are recorded which show intelligence in brute creation. Physi- 
cally considered, they have many properties in common v.'ith us: Ihey sill 
have flesh, bone,. arteries, veins, hair, teetb, sight; nasal proboscis, mouth, 
ears, palate, digestive functions, and so forth, in the whole of which there 
is a general identity, a similarity of quality and structure, lou have un- 
doubtedly noticed persons whose color, build, and contour had a good deal ot 
similarity to that of the fox, and foxy they were in disposition. You will oc- 
casionally meet in the street with a man whose features are like a bulldog, 
and if you had the misfortune, accidentally, to couie too near him, his km- 



(4) ship to the canine tribe would manifest itself by snarling. Some have writ- 
ten in capital letters, hog, on their face, and hogish they are. And it is really 
remarliable that the hog is nearer to us related than most other animals. 
Its circulatory, respiratory and digestive organs are precisely the same as in 
men. Some men are sneaky in their appearance and gait and sneaky in their 
character. Others seem related to the feathered tribe, they strut along like a 
a peacock, and if a crinoline encloses such a bird, I advise you stay out of the 
way. Others liave the noble look of the lion, horse, or the docile appearance 
of the lamb or dove. But man prides himself to possess silone the reasoning 
power and spiritual insiglit. Yet Balnnm's ass saw the angel by the wayside, 
while Balaam did not see hitn. Let us look at anatomy, and it establishes the 
near relationship of the animal kingdom to man. In tlie spinal column of 
man, at its extremity adjoining tlie sacrum, is the vertebra, called coccyx, 
exactly similar in shape like the caudal appendage of brute creation ; and it 
would serve the same purpose if we walked on hands and teet instead of erect. 
And it seems that at one time in the history of creation, tliis caudal appendage 
or coccyx was alike in sliapeand performed the same function in the animal as 
well as in tl)e embryo man. But as the Creator designed man for a higher 
scale in life, this appendage was arrested in man, while he learned to walk 
erect; while in the brute creation it kept on growing to its present extent. 
Let me now relate to you some facts from observation which history has re- 
corded, to show that animals have nearly all the attributes wliich we designate 
as qualities oi mhid, spirit, and the reasoning faculty. First: A dog has 
the function of aversion and memory. A dog of the Rev. Thos. Jackson had 
been made so drunk with malt liquor that he was unable to walk up stairs. 
Ever after that event, he declined to take another liorn of that i)ernicious 
beverage and growled at the sight of the pewter pot. Again, as to love, Don 
Juan is an old and unenterprising ciiaracter compared to a dog. As to mater- 
nal aftection, the mother dog exhibits it with heroic passion, starving herself 
to death rather than forsake her ofl'spring. Gratitude is a leading character in 
a dog, it shows itself in his fidelity to his master. Regret and grief he feels 
so deeply that often tliey break his heart. Fear and courage the dogs exhibit 
with singular variation ; a greyhound lias been known, after breaking his 
thigh, still CO run on till the course was concluded, showing thus fortitude. 
He shows liope and expectation, in gleefully watching his master's home- 
ward-bound steps ; when nobody else lias hardly perceived him yet. Pride 
may be seen in the quickened heart-beats when carressed and praised for 
having won a successfnl race. Vanity exhibits itself when they appear de- 
jected in consequence of being wet or dirty, from exposure. Chivalry is 
always found in dog^. And of wife beating he is not guilty. Magnanimity is 
manifested by enduring the numerous insults of children or smaller curs than 
him. Avarice is common to all dogs ; which you will find out to your 
sorrow, in attempting to extract that piece of ham or bone out of his mouth. 
Covetousness shows itself when lie sneaks off with a stolen bone from a 
neighboring cur. After lie has done any thing he ouglit not, and has 
violated any known rule imposed on him — he manifests shame in stealthily, 
sneaking off with Ids tail between his legs. Humor and games beseems 
partially to understand and enjoy, as lie barks with delight at "go fetch," 
he makes believe runs, false starts, romps, and tackling the ball like a child 
and throwing it from him to catcli it again. Faith in a superior, which he 
likes ; is an affecting tribute of a dog. The dog shows also the sense of the 
mysterious, that is : when he sees a phenomenon with whose cause he is not 
acquainted, the most pugnacious dog will then become frightened ; as Mr. 
Spencer showed by pulling a string tied to a bone which the dog was about 
to grasp, and also with the soap bubble, etc. Who has not heard the ac- 
c<:>unt of the mourning dog in Robespierre's time — when a magistrate was 
imprisoned and afterward guillotined. His dog visited him daily at the 
prison, followed him in a dejected state to the place of execution, and for tliree 
months watched constantly his gi-avcj when his strength gave way. He was 
observed for 24 lionrs digging up the earth, that separated him from the 
being he loved. Finally he shrieked and died on the grave of his master. 
Did this not show mental characteristics? For we can not love another, or 
mourn for his loss until we have appreciated his merits ; and the kindness 
he has done us— which calls the reasoning faculties into operation, to weigh 
and measure — to distinguish between the good and bad. But such traits are 
not confined to dogs. Ants seem to reason. As Mr. Reamer mentions 
that at several experiments — several colonies of ants took up their abode 
between his glass-hive and his outer case, thus they secured an equable 
temperatiu'e and saved an immense amount of labor. These animals seem 
to understand cause and effect. As Dr. Fleming mentions that the 
liooded crow in Zetland— when with its bill it cannot break the shell of the 
molluscs, it alights with it in tlie air and then lets it fall among the stones 
and not on the sand, and this process is repeated until the tempting mouth- 
full becomes: attainable. Animals have evidently the power developed to 
communicate with each other — how else could a colony of bees work so 
harmoniously together? Look at the intelligence of martins, when one of 



Its tribe calls his brethren to his assistance — to ousted an impertinent (5) 
sparrow, which has nestled itself into the martins nest under some eave or 
house gable. That they can communicate shows tlie story of the lamb 
entanjyled in the briars^ The lamb's mother was unable to extricate it. All 
at once she sped off to the distant flock and speeddy returned with a large 
ram, who set the pj:isoner free by tearing asunder the hedge of thorns. Dr. 
Darwin noticed a wasp cutting off the head and lower parts of the body of a 
fly — then flew off; but the breeze obstructed the onward march, as the fly's 
wings were in the way — so the wasp descended again cut the wings off and 
then departed. This took a process of reasoning, to remove tlius the ob- 
struction to aerial navigation. A London magazine mentions the fact that a 
dog jumped into an omnibus and rode from London to the Eagle tavern 
where iie seemed at home — thus showing that he preferred riding to walking. 
A bumble bee learns by experience. Mr. Huber watched it and saw it at- 
tempting to insert its proboscis and head into the narrow tubed bean flower, 
so as to reach the nectar at its bottom ; but as the tube was too narrow, after 
several vain attempts he resorted to another method by drilling a hole at the 
bottom of the chalix ; and then successfully inserting his sucker. VVc can- 
not help but to believe that so-called instinct, is a lower degree of intellect 
mind, spirit, or whatever you term it; that there exists an aflinity of 
thoughts and desires between man and the brute creation ; not only with 
regard as to animals of higher organization, but even in the mysterious 
world of myriads of little creatures that till the air and cover the ground 
beneath our feet. The evidences are overwhelming bj'" men of all grades and 
all times and places. 

Time will only allow m,e to mention a few instances more. Science has 
established, that animals within their range of vision and action exhibit a 
mode of thinking, akin to man. Buckner says: that when two ants converse 
with each other they staud opposite and move their flexible feelers in an ani- 
mated manner. Hague in a letter to Darwin says : that he killed a number of 
ants who came through a crack in the wall to feed on some plants. The 
result was that the new comers stopped at the entrance and then turned 
back— thus taking warning at the fate of their predecessors. Landois the 
author says: that besides the language of gestures, the ants have also a 
language of sound. Perty relates how a gold beetle in his garden came across 
a May beetle ; but as he could not alone master him — he ran oft and soon re- 
turned with a comrade and renewed the attack. Sir Walter Scott says : that 
he had a bull-terrier who bit his backer once, at wliich he got a whipping. 
If ever after Sir Walter Scott would speak of the backer — in presence of the 
dog. he would invariably crawl under the bench in the darkest corner. Mr. 
Smeli reports — that a grocer's dog in Edinburgh was treated once by a ped- 
dler with a pie. The next day the dog seized his coat-tail imploringly look- 
ing for a pie. The peddler showed him a penny and pointed to his master. 
The dog immediately repaired to his master with gestures and loolc which 
seemed to beg for a penny, and as he got it, brought it to the peddler and 
got his pie. According to Mr. Jessie's story— dogs can count. His mother 
used to tie her dog in the kennel, on Sundays. She had done so a few Sun- 
days, when the dog regularly concealed himself— when Sunday did arrive. 
But this is nothing new--as every one of us has had occasion to see, ex- 
hibited a learned pig, who is an able mathematician and a shrewd euchre 
player Cyclopedia of natural history reports that near Cupar, two dogs 
had been flghting on a bridge and both tumbled in the stream. One got out 
easily — but the other could not. So tie fli'st one plunged in again and 
brought him out, and ever after they were fast friends and never again fought 
together, thus exhibiting courage and magnanimity on one side and grati- 
tude on the other. Thus we see ; that we ought not despise the animal 
world, and say that it only possesses a soul and instinct — that the latter has no 
kinship to the mental faculties of man— that in fact the animal with its soul 
dies, and that there is no resurrection for it. I add one more forcible illustra- 
tion wliich came under the observation of W. Lander Lindsay, M. D. , as to 
the fact, that dogs who have been cast away from the home of their masters — 
learned the bitterness of life — became wearj^ of it. Thus the dog reasons, 
life is of no more use and comfort to me, and he goes and drowns himself ; of 
which there are numerous instances. Even instances of other animals com- 
mitting suicide, when they had lost their companion or young, when the 
world had lost its brightness for them: Asa canvas-back duck used its 
bill to keep itself submerged until drowned, seizing a water weed at the 
bottom. Some times birds poisoning themselves or refusing to eat, to escape 
conflnement. Of the black scorpion of India, plunging the sting of its own 
tail in its own back when tortured, thus to escape the torturer— by death. 
In short they ;have all the propensities and ailings of men. Theft is 
common among cats, dogs, horses, rabbits, monkies, mag-pies, jay-birds, 
rooks, crows, eagles, wrens, etc. They are subject to the same diseases as men, 
and manifest the same emotions under those circumstances. Even the germ 
of the religious element is found in them. Then in the face of all these facis, 
and that this world of ours is a vast grave yard, where daily millions oi 



(6) resurrections take place, and mvriaas ot beins>x sprins: into existence— 
rhrowiu^-- aside rheir sravo clothes and die Am-iv of a former existence, the 
conclusion seems to be irresistible, that instinct, soul, mind and spirit are the 
<ame thino-. performiuff ditVerent futictions. The soul or instinct conducts? 
animal life in man or beast, animates and prompts us and makes us teel averse 
to or sympathize with our fellow cn\iture. The mind so called, reasons 
and calculates. Our spiritual phase of our being, deals with things bevond 
the terrestria'. connects ns with the great unseen, with our dejir departed, en 
tliat unknown bourne. This is the connecting link with Deity which makes 
each one of us a drop in the irreat ocean of spirit lite, uhMitical in character 
with the all-coutrolins spirit himself. As I have horetotore shown, that 
men of science reduce to-dav air and g.ases ^^vhich wc cannot see) to liqiuds 
and solids, so we may fairly presume, that tlie soul, mind or spirit is some 
ethereal sublimated liiatter': invisible to our naked eyes; tfiat from the 
o-reat ocean of spirit life, are daily sent forth ihese elastic attmmijeit fmrffnettc 
particles which infuse, animate and control organized life. Ihis does not 
destroy the idea of immortality, nay it ennobles it. For we cannot well con- 
ceive how to preserve our identity liei-eafter and how to enjoy the herealter 
life • with a spirit who has 710 tceiaht twrfonn. Though some retonners deny 
that spirit is matter in one breath, yet in the next breath, they cloth- m 
beautitul torm and shape our spirits and the angels' lite on the other shore. 
Is there not a kernel tor every tree? A g^raiu for every ear of wheat? A germ 
for every new creation of animal life ? Aye ! ihU it w which t^ viatia^?id 
which is' immortal. For in the very motnmt of its dying, it opens the portals of 
the immortal. A truth vou cannot p-reeive with your physical eyes, yet it is 
tis nerceptible to the mind, as a granite column or niiy other substance w-ouKl 
be to the eve. Immortality has imprinted the proof of its existence in its own 
history. Thus God the iullnite spirit, the poslive, and nature the negative 
and teminine element, keep on producing truition. perpetual existence trom 
<reueration to generation and from age to age ; though the outward sembhuice 
may change ifs form or pirb. Yet the kernel, the soul is always the s:ime. 
Thus God^ the intinite— all pervading spirit imbuing the vegetable, animal 
and human world with growth, energy, life, leeling and thinking powers, 
is a beino- of destiny aiul design, whicli characteristics his creatures must 
neccssarflv share. And there is'^love : does it die? 1 sjiy no; it lives 011 trom 
o-eneration to generation and makes all the world akin. It is the spirit essence 
which intuseslite and vitality into all human action, and is as well tlie ru ing 
m<sion of the animal woi Id. for does not brute creation love Us otlspnng.^ does 
It not mourn when its young dies— is forcibly taken away, or when a beloved 
master "oes awav or dies. Xav it is evident, that love is the design of crea- 
tion, and is the vital spirit which moves worlds in due rotation. ^. , . . 

Phivnoloc^V has long ago located the mind in the brain more particularly in 
the cerebrum. It says :^- The brain is the medium of the mind yet ater 
on • it has been asserted by materialists that the brain is the mind. AV hich of 
Uiese theories is true is yet undecided. Yet that much is certain that the cere- 
brum is the sounding" string— the vibrating key-board by which mental 
actions are set in motion and made known. The cerebellum is the scat ot 
ani'oal functions, voluntary motions, in short it is the executive othcer of our 
actions and volitions ViVisection has established that at various times 
Thi^ was of late in 1S7S vet established in Peru, by Dr. Pedro Denuiegnza. 
The President of that liepublic, had delivered to him, tor scientitical ex- 
periment, a condemned murderer. Heremovedouebyone of the ganglions 
and convolutions of the brain. First the part assijjned to coinbativeness. and 
on the subject becoming conscious ; he was as docile as a aiub : then he puv 
ceeded with the other part^ until the whole cerebellum had been removed, 
and the subject had .till clearness of intellectual vision, but lacked volition, 
locomotion and executive powers. 'Hie doctor then removed, the whole 
intellectual lobe, removed the whole top skull and replaced it with an i\orj 
dome. Andtheresultwas. that the subject in addition to lose ot volinoii, 
had lost the functions of an intellectual bemo:; m short had become a little 
lower than the biute creation, though still his vital process was uiumpiured. 
t^till he could eat and still lived on. I will not .^ay: that the brain is the 
mind ; or simply the organ of the mind : But lookm.g at the evidences around 
about us in nature, there is a fair presumption, that like the harp, it is 
manipulated by subjective and outside intelligences tiiough they may not be 
known to us. Gene- ally tliese siiuiective and extraneous intelligences mani- 
lie^t themselves through the medium of the brain. Still invisible agents m 
nature constantly indueiice us unconsciously. Thus we see things and tlieir 
relations often instantaneously, intuitively, without any prior process ot 
rea^onin^-. Life in its various forms is perpetuatmg itself, ^ay wa> may 
create lite itself. Thus an English scientist, who was expermentmg with an 
elective battery to produce crystals from water. He made the water pass 
slowly alonir the wires of the positive and negative poles, dropping under- 
neath* on a stone. Some time after he examined the water on the stone and 
it presented a coagulated, glutinous substance, teeming with animal life. 
Tliiukin^^ that this animal life might be the result of the aumuUculaj 



(7) priorly iu the water, he substituted muriatic-acid, which you know ; kills all 
animal life. Thus he let the process go on for some time ; and lo ! he found 
that these drops of muriatic-acid contained animal life ; and that, dif- 
ferent in form and shape of all otiier animal life previously existing. Thus 
then man may become a creator himself. And diflcrent forms of life may be 
developed in future by the bringing together the proper elements, in proper 
proportions and undpr suitable conditions. Each man may thus be a God ia 
himself on a-small scale, at least show his kinship with an almighty creator, 
and become more tamiliar with those spiritual agents which thus constantly 
and unconsciously influence him. Then this mind — producing life, is matter, 
and is insmortal. For in the very moment of its dying and changing of 
form, it opens the porials of the immoilal and the eternal, and gives birth to a 
new being nearly identical in character with its parents. Then it is folly for the 
Jews to .proclaim themselves to be the high priests of heaven. Folly for 
Christians to run a race for the best seats in heaven, while they nesflect the 
heaven in which they live. For lo I the Mohammedans Biulliists and the 
other heathens laugh in their sleeves and point at the discord of the house ot 
Israel and the followers of the i*^azarene, while thoy themselve-' believe to be 
the chosen ones. Thus the selfish nature of man manifests itself, at all times 
and places,to get the best ot his fellow. This proves abundantly his 'elation to 
the lower imimal creation. It is further demonstrated by the fact that brute 
creation was prior in time to man. There is no doubt any more, that the 7 
biblical days of creation were 7 epochs. Thus after the earth was developed, 
in course ot geological changes, to a fit condition for man to live on, and after 
the animal world had developed its functions from the homogeneous to the 
heterogeneous ; Man came into existence in the due course of natural develop- 
ment of animal life ; from one specie of animal Ife, namely, the vertebrates 
and of that family called the mammals, to whom to-day he is nearest related 
in physic and mental or soul development. Animal life'seems to liave original 
been built on two distinct plans— to wit: Vertebrates and Non vertebrates. At 
the date of man's creation, the chain which linked him to brute creation was 
closer- drawn than to day. Yet the embryo of undeveloped capabilities was 
there; which in after age was to bloom in all the splendor and gorgeousness 
attributed to deity itself. Why not admit then, that thousands of years ago 
we descended from the lordly '^Ape. 1 rather progress from the lower to the 
higher forms of animal life — tnan retrogress back We have in common the 
vertebree, we are in oommon mammals. We have in common a coccyx — or 
caudal appendage — as I mentioned before, allthough larger developed in 
brutes. The brain of a young gorilla is as large as that of a child. The 
hitters brain is only after-birth developed. The skidl of the savage and his 
amount of brain corresponds nearly with the monkey, as scientific travelers 
have repeatedly reported from Novarra and the interior of Africa. The theory 
of progression is more worthy of a creator and developing v/orlds, than that 
of degradationfroDi the ideal tmd perfect, to the imperfect. Born of one com- 
mon stock, man being at his start the highest developed brute, has pro- 
gressed faster, than brute creation — by viitue of a divine decree, through 
nature's law^ (epochs' of time, and the fiivoring circumstances of climate and 
intercoiu'se. The constant revolution and progress oi' this globe is written in 
indelible ink in the strata ot granite and red sand-stone in the carbonifera 
and alluvian deposits in the deep ravines of Niagara Falls and by the lofty 
mountains of Switzerland with its eternal glaciers, strata and boulders, 
formed at various e})oehs of earth's history. Man is then a progressive being, 
going from imperfection to perfection, from the homogeneous to the heter- 
ogeneous. Man has developed more rapidly physicdly and mentally in the 
moderate zone. At the North pole ; anil at the equator, man is inferior in 
intellect and body, to the one living in a clime where the elements are not so 
fierce. We are free moral agents wirhin certain limits; and have therefore 
the shaping of our destiny in our own hands. We have to a certain extent 
obstructed the development of our spiritual nature, by the inordinate develop- 
ment of the lower passion ; or as they have been transmitted to us by our 
ancestors. Ignorances superstition ; non intercourse with other nations, and 
other nefariotis circumstances have obstructed our progress. Yet in face of 
all this drawback, we have advanced; the churches have become more liberal 
our intellect more enlightened. Good many of nature's wonders are no more 
miracles to us as of old. for we have learned the causes thereof. To day we 
interchange thought and ply commerce with earth's remotest nations; we 
therefore become more cosmopolitan, humane, more comprehensive. The 
first epoch ot man's development wiss marked by the formation of a body ; 
crowned with the head, containing solely a medulla-oblongata and a cerebellum. 
Then came the epoeii of development in the intelectual region, giving us a 
cerebrum with all. its nerve tissue fibres and convolutions. Man's forehead 
grew then towards the right angle. Causality and comparison grew guided 
by the perceptives. Yet there failed a link in the cycle chain of man's 
faculties, which would elcA'ate him upwards and onwards, to the worlds' 
creator, that function which would link the finite to the infinite, and that was 
man's spiritual functions. Home are now walking on this plane, and they 



(S) can trulv say: '■'■Nearer my God to th^e.'' Others are still occupyiug 
the first step on the ladder of progress. But olden time has changed, 
as those below lift now their heads up vrith a determination to rise. 
And the chasm berween those at the bottom of the ladder, and 
those at the top has been bridged. And now they ftin and ai>? willing 
to lift a brother or sister up. Even brute creation advances, the animal of to- 
dav is not the same, as that of antiquity. From the bulky .animals with a few 
organs. ind no fflimmer of intelUffenoe.'endowed only with rapacitv.ihey have 
to-dav become'snialer and more compact in stature ; with a more deJicatc and 
complicated organism ; with a superior: intelligence and with less ferocity. 
Tliev are now subject to culture and learn with astonishing rapidity : -oitness 
the circus and bird exhibitions: and the observation of scientific men. some 
of which I have enumerated. The so-called ifufifu-f of animtUs. is akin to 
intuitwn in man. As an animal seems to act at cnce, without an app.ireut 
process of reasoning, so we sav: "I saw the point at once, intuitively or telt 
it instinctively.'' 1 apprehend that both faculties depend on prior knowledge 
and experience, and the more precise and comprehensive the latter .are the 
more correct .and the quicker is vonr intuition or instinctive feeling. 

A child has no intuition, only in latter years, when you have stored the 
store-house of the mind, full with facts: vonr inUntion is quickened, you com- 
mence to see thiuffs quicker. The c'liaracter of our intuition, traiu of 
thoughts, inclinations and desires are dependant on the development ot our 
bodies— nav even accordinjrlv as the difierent pjirtis thereof are developed, 
and according to what we "cat and drink and how we live and to wiiat our 
surronndinofs are. A life long avocation even changes a man's physical and 
mental nature. For whether mind is matter, or is an independent faoulty. a 
phenomenal result of the ccrrcla4ion of matter : and which depends for it.< ex- 
pression on the quiilirv of the body, still a h-armoniously developed head 
and bodv willexnressthe hiffher and purer thought. And it doe^ not 
matter whether the mind is located in the brain or in the spinal column or 
even in the stomach, which is the boiler so to speak of the human systeni. 
Neither whether the mind of man. the egc, which distinguishes him in his 
characteristics from his leilows, is .an undetinable nothing, or whether the 
brain or other part^ of the bodv constitute the mind, and th.at it manifesit 
itself bv the emission of its parb. aflecting the subjective or objective world; 
that is'to say: Th:it it is; something like, and acts on similar basis ; as steam 
does in propellinff 'the locomotive or steamship, being the joint product of 
heat and water : Like the flame of the lamp or heat ol the lurnaee. being the 
joint product ot combustion of the fuel and oxygen. Or that it. being even 
"like electricity, a lorce or emission of particles the result of the latent com- 
bustion of the plates and conducting fluid of the negative and positive poles 
of an electric battery : Or hke agencies .acting on similar principles. One 
undisputed fact remains: that there is a mental power emanating from each 
person and peculiar to that person. And there is also at least prolxtbly cause 
to believe, that there is an extraneous mind or intelligence, or intelligences 
outside ol the individual, actina: on .and influencing that individual mind. 
Thus we have tlie vjirrievl expression of mind ; like chemical atoms com- 
posed of the s:inie quantity and of the same qualify will give ditferent pro- 
ducts ; in case thev are not arranged in the same position, and thus do not 
sustain to each other the same moleer.lar relation, so in man the predomin- 
ance of one or more element will make him dilFer in character from his lellow. 
Thus one man is bilious, the otlier of the motive; a 3d phlegmatic— a 4th of 
the mental and a 5th of the vital temperament, parti:dly inherited and partially 
acquired. Thus we JU-e a srood deal, that what external circumstances, over 
which we had no control, have made us. After all we acquire knowledge the 
same as aniuiiils, bv traininff. though we pick up knowledge quicker. Yet at 
its birth, the child'is more helpless than a cub. the latter can soon after birth 
seek its sustenance. Who can deny and establish by proof : that the ourang- 
outauf, •o-oiilla, and chimpanzee are not the connecting links between m. an 
and the lower animal creation. While the proof is overwhelming that they 
are. First on the theory and ohservaiion of the progressive developmaif, all 
throuo-h nature ; "Jd: Its snnilaritfot physical structure ; They h.ave teeth simi- 
lar to'"inan and the same number; The sh.ape of their ears i^J the same like 
oui-s. Thev have no tail, simpiv a coccvx at the end of the spinal column, just 
like man. " Their hands and feet are similar to ours, possessing each five digits 
with nails at the tips, just like us. Their cranium approaches in development, 
to that of the barbarians of Africa. Asia, and India. The coiuour ot their 
face, nose and eves is human. 3d. Their intelligence manifested by their eyes 
and .actions shows tiie dawn of reason. I saw a young chimpanzee weep, 
shed actual tears, because its keeper neaatived its desire. But we have been 
in the habit ot inlerjectinff: that this is all instinct; that the bird bmlds its nest 
and the beaver his iiouse'just as it did a thousand years ago." I deny if; his- 
tory does not show it. To the contrary it shows, that anim.als learn by ex- 
perience ; thit they avail themselves ot favorable circumstances ; which have 
struelv their intelli'o-ence ; to better their condition. No animal can do at its 
bii-th, nor doesit do, that which in after years astounds us. The bird can 



only buiJd its « est after it has seen repeatedly its ancestdrs and neighbors (9) 
do it. . - . ,: ., : . o V / 

Instinct 'Indeed ^ Behold the'^reat ehasm between the intelligence of brute 
creation of the same kind, wiiieh time and experience has wade between the 
yotino; and old. For instance, a youncr pussy will purr around and look 
with trust and confidence into every body's fuc^?, though he be a strano-er 
Slie evidently believes like the child, that all the world is animated with (^ood 
will towards her, and even desires to frolic with her. iUit experience and°a"-e, 
like the advancement from childhood to manhood, has taught the old cat iFke 
the grey haired sire, that not all is well; that not all the world is philan- 
thropic .ind congenial, but that there is discoid and antagonism. Thus the 
old cat becomes more cautious in selecting company; she looks now more 
vv'ith the keen penetrating eye of suspicion, engendered by experience, on the 
otyective wor'd. She avoids strangers, she scrutinizes their appearance first 
before she approaches at all ; she has learned the various signs of approach- 
ing danger and avoids it quick as the lighthing's Hash. Sad experience has 
taught her that there is a good deal of chaft", and she cannot very easily be 
caught with it. How aflfcctionate and confiding every pup jumps on your 
lap, or follows you if you only deign to recognize him. Does the old o-rey- 
haired dog do the same? No, sir. Sad experience has taught him oTher- 
wise. His good nature has been soured by the treatment"- he has received. 
He growls, barks and bites, when the passing urchin simply swings his stick* 
or bends down as if picking up a rock. Because he knows how he has been 
treated before. He makes now no more friends Avith strangers, as in his 
youthful days. He looks with suspicion at the passing strano-er, and even 
f notices the ditference between day and night, and seems to understand the 
danger of night for evil, and is consequently more ferocious in his master's 
behalf. Thus tliis shows intelligence and memory; the faculty of comparing 
and choosing between opposing events and circumstances. In short reasoi> 
ing from cause to effect and vice versa. 

Th us the child needs years of ed ucation. Suppose we devoted the same years 
of training and education, to animals, and that for some generations. Don't 
you think w« would have visibly improved the physique and intelligence of 
animals? The child only learns a thing after being repeatedly shown it and 
explained. The same way the animal lealrns and it fills its mission as well as 
man; imbued and animated by the same divine spirit. The sameness of qual- 
ity in man and animal, destroys not man's divinity, if everything in nature 
18 divine. Only biirols deny the handiwork of God, while they themselves 
declare to be the chosen ones. 

Of late Professor Owens has discovered in South Africa the fossil remains 
of an extinct reptile, which helps to bridge the gap betAveen mammals and 
cold-blooded A'ertebraes. After we have been accustomed to hear of the dis- 
covery of fossils— as of birds Avith lizzard-like tails and teeth in their jaws, 
of saunans with Avings and of horses with 3 toes. The present discovery is 
in fact a lizzard-like reptile, with a tendency to certain Joav types of manima- 
lian structure. The skeleton in question is analogous to the ornithorhyn dins 
or duck-mole of Australia, knoAvn a- the beast with a bill. It is nearly re- 
lated to the echidna, one of the surviving types which enable us to span the 
apparent gulf between extremely differentiated organic classes. The duck- 
mole, is a lur covered animal which lays eggs. It is thus in this particular 
not far re-moved from reptiles. 

And this leads us on to pouched animals, like kangaroos, which bring forth 
their young alive, but still in a condition hardly ditfering from a chicken in the 
egg. It may now be safely said, that the pedigree ot the mammalia irom the 
reptile is approximately made out. We have first the primitive reptile, then 
a reptile Avith growing mammalian tendencies, then still more perfect 
mammals Avith ovoviviparous forms. Then again a group of pouched and 
pouchless mammals, culminating in the highest forms of animated creation. 

1 he transmission theory is based on physiological facts, the contour and 
organs of animals being simply an arrested formation; while man's physique 
kept on developing more rapidly to its destined maturity. Arrested forma- 
tion, or growth to disproportion, in animal or man, is even nothing new to-day. 
- ^ ''?™e only a tcAv. You have all seen or heard of the cow with 5 legs, 2 tails 
and 2 udders, A^eighing 1,300 lbs., giving milk from the top as well as under- 
neath; having also a^oru gioAving on the center of her back. At the same 
?ATi -7^^ ^ bull— father of oflspring— having also udders giving milk. 
While traveling in Europe I saw in the Alexian Institution 2 ape men; de- 
rived from human parents yet resembling in contour and conduct a monkey, 
1 hey evinced traits of cunning malignity and craft, their utterances were' 
guttural sounds, their microcephalus Avas that of the ape. Thus I saw in an 
asylutn at Hindelbank, Switzerland, a girl Avho, as far as intellect Avas con- 
cerned, stood on the same grade as your house-dog, "but possessed a promi- 
nent imitative faculty. Thus the mermaid, now exhibited over the country, 
possesses human intellig.nce. Her upper body is that of a woman while her 



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flOl history of orffauism; and that they remain latent through certain pe- 
riods ami then under favorable circumstances make themse yes visible again. 
The mind seems to be located in the brain, as from there all actions are di- 
rected and reported back to. The cerebrum, the sanctum of tho/>ia matter. ha\ - 
in<r at its back the great sympathetic nerve and connecting it ^yith the cerebel- 
um sends on the i amitications of thosenerves, its electric fluid through the 
body to execute its behests. While the character of the behests are deter- 
mfned b? the will-the latter being no special foculty but being the eombmed 
DOwer of anv group of predominatmg taculties. That is to say, if the ani- 
mal propensities domuiate, the individual will be led by its behests, or vice 

""^Mantfgoverned by 2 classes of thoughts. One class o»"igi»-i|^V.?ll'"''ThP 
the other arises from without. The objective world produces the lattei. The 
firtt cla% of thought* are the result of a so-called inner perception- he hght 
o the'oul wtthiS. This is partly called into action when we shut our- 
selves up in the closet and medirate undisturbed by the world. 1 he soul 
Sen communicates with itself. Tbi« physical Pb^'^'O'^^"^",,;^,-^^^^^^? 
vividlY into existence in a state of trance or catalepsy. Then when the door 
0^011- pi vsical senses are shut to the outward world, it is tlien when the 
soul-slioht burns most brilliantly and the spirit's power is then mam tested. 
Then i converses ^s^X\^ and beholds the embodiment of the spirits of our depart- 
ed friends, and by virtue of the connecting spirit's sympathetic cord the patient 
Sn tel you what your relaUves at that moment do, though 1 000 ""les away. 
Nav devoted frleii"Us can bridge the distiince between, with the bridge of love, 
SeS enjoin the other to think of him or her. They call this bniin waves. 
And hei el must relate to you another instance of my boyhood. Fate having 
ca^fmy birthplace in the valley of Uie Rhine, as a boy 1 visited, with my 
fSe? on a simimer-eve, a sick neighbor; he was in a catalep ic state, when 
memor? voU ion and outward coifsciousness is suspended. Another nei-h- 
Sfr eutirecl who had a son studying in the City of Cologne, about 9 miles 
from 01 r V llaae. This neighbor ^vTls a pious old soul and had vigorously xxx- 
SStedch rc4i doctrines iSto son. "said the sick man to our neighbor 
-John yohink your son is busy studying and is walking in the way o 
the Lonf rbut 1 see him now dancing with a youn- ladv (here describing her) 
in the old Kuhbercr." The latter being a place of public amusement. Our 
Sous Mend was quite astonished, as he° waa not a believer in such phant^isms, 
Ke ciStheiu? But his curiosity was sufficientlv aroused and he deter- 
Snld to Tei the matter at once, and so saddled imnieduitely one of his 
S! •£ and pu tin- the spurs into his steed, he galloped ofl to the scene of 
action: NeS monnn-wiien we saw him again, to see what the result^ had 
been he appeared crestfallen, as he had realized that the pins of his f^» h bad 
been knocked from under him and all liis pious teachings had been hrown 
away on hi^frisky kid; for he had found him swingmg around the charmer 
rlPQfrihed in the mazv waltz, at the place indicated. . ., , , k„ 

Bu to our subject: In proportion as we develop our spiritual nature by 
Durelive^ study, and good-will to our fellow men, in such proportions ye 
wufadv^nce towards the infinite and secure real happiness. ^lan needs cul- 
Se- s to the^m^ In the past it has been directed only tONvards mdi- 

' Iklualf The outvNard form of man proclaims the status ot his soul, as 
Iheomward firm images the inward essence. Nature has coated it? germ 
wkh "ever il coats to preserve it from the inclemency of the weather, bo the 
roul and -^ni^t-S^ is within constructed of sublimated matter, In am- 

£me the comWnatioii becomes less complex, and in vegetation still simpler 
wh le hi the mineriil world it is more crude and homo-eneous than before 
mentioned "ifire^w^^^^^ "tatter loses its solidity, but gets more 

Sic^^and subtle. Then comes etlier, still more elastic and attenuated then 
comes, that fluid, that airy something with fiery electric ^"g"«Jl./'"\^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
«n rit hiviiie- form and weight, and is consequently matter. Most manifest 
when aetYi - thrmi-h the complex organ of man. Mind or spirit is only per- 
Tent bie wh'en it mSves, and it takes up time to manifest itself, and it cannot 
S?5 without mauer. Tlxough you cannot see it with your naked eye, yet 

^'Mr^'DuStmafer VBeriii' pl^^^^^^^^ discovered and in^proved upon 

.1, • , ^ i!;..,; Vi.Qf- fhp <5onl of every man and animal is to be sought for 
the prior ^beo^ ^bat the so^^^^^^^^ radiates and can be col- 

lecSd bt rphotoSr%h£ pfa^e^ c^^^^^^^ the^iodide of sUyer and as the 

lected oy a PiiotOoraiHu p J^j^ive to odor ; so also the soul radiates. He 
^SSiaririi rcag^therS^t^^^^^^^^^ the room, ^yho made frantic 

^ffiS n apt It the h7re= who were terribty frightened. After two hours he 
Imed the&tSs nerves of smell and th'e mucous membrane of the nose 
KUieu lue ""o ' ",^ . , J „ j„ n mortar with glycerine and water, ihe iO 
were removed and rubbed up m^^^ been "exhaling their souls into the 

nfr'ol th^rlom which ?he dog hacnnhaled, thus the glj^cerine might contain 
air of "^be room, wnicn uie uu^ j characteristics of which 

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was rendered thus so -^wardly, that he ran away from a cat. Thus then this( 11) 
SShes the fact-that the soul or mind of animated creation is matter, as 
Si ?but matter can radiate and be exhaled, By smiilar process are we 
nftpced Thus the sneech, gestures and motions of sentient bemgs aflecfc 
us Their souls radiating on Sur souls. The air and gases which chemistry 
deduces now to fluids and solids-you could neither percieve before 

'^^iCmind's fticulties are manifold ; and those that have been longest used 
are most acute-as the percoptives-(being the faculties exercised in weigh- 
w measuring and discerning colors), are more developed than the reason- 
inlVaculty, in all men-whether Caucasian, Ethiopian or ot any other race, 
because the perceptives have been u.ed since _ birh-while he mental, or 
mo?allacult.ies were only called into activity in alter hfe The mind is a 
Xderfu nstrument; in aniesthesia it soars to the utmost bounds of space. 
FtrS it-that is: 1 took a dose of protoxide of mtrogen-known as laugh- 
in "Ss to produce comma, or anaesthetic sleep. Off went the mind on its 
erraBc mission. I vividly yet remember how everything became lUumed- 
Seaiu space became annihilated. The world seemed to be a busy hum- 
mTng workshop, and all that I had done and seen in my life parsed m 
Slight before the panorama of the soul in the space of a few seconds. 
We don't kno.v yet what capabilities the mind possesses. Its erratic powers 
which we perceive in dreams and the pictures then drawn out before the camera 
Se sonUare not all phantoms, brought on by indigestion. Sometimes thev 
are sober truths. In sleei^ the involuntary nerves are unhnged from the vol- 
untarv The latter (being situated in the ce7-eb7'um and sensonum) become 
partially inert-the fibres which stood erect in the sensorium during waking 
hours : to let the blood flow freely through are now collapsed ; consequently 
the blood ceases to flow there, causing drowsiness and consequent sleep 
while during this negative state, the involuntary nerves remain atitive. Ihus 
when our outwarc? consciousness has left us, our guiding spirit-some 
beloved mother, father, sister or brother, may communicate with us and tell 
us some truth, or give us a warning. .. r *. 

■ InTaving now this topic, I proceed to the next : Resurrection. I must con- 
fess that I c'an't believe any more what I have been taught, namely : ahieral 
resurrection of our identical bodies, at a given hour. It seems to me that 
theie are somethino-s which are impossible-even to God. He cannot anmhi- 
ateoirot eSencf mat^^ He cannot be unjust and He cannot annihilate 
and recall past time. Now if raising and gathering all the parts of the dead 
bodies to-ether, is not impossible, it is next to it. Besides I see no reason 
therefor If God had designed that, He certainly would have adopted 
measures at the^ art o avcMd such a colossal job even for Deity. What a con- 
Son woulcl Se thel-e at the trumpet sound, when every poor soul would 
have to roam about; in one continent for an arm, in another for another pa t ot 
the bodv. Xay some of the |.arts might be fomid in the solar system, as 70 out of 
100 parts of our bodies, are liquids and gas, it might have been carried, on the 
back of a zephyr to Mercury. The formation and parts of the earth are con- 
titiuallvchanirinsr, car/ying one part of its surface, contaimn^ the decayed 
hunian^odteMo omeo^^^^^ part of the globe. 2d. These tfecayed bodies 
become the mirture of vegetation. And thus we may hava eaten some ot 
o^or someZly-l else ancestor, in the shape of an Irish potatoe, or a sweet 
Murphy either. Or a cow may have eaten them, in the shape of grass. Nay 
Seymay form a part of our buildings, as the trees received their quota ot 
dead bodies. Or the wood, which got thus us nourishment— being burnt- 
sent the los human particles to the four winds in the shape of smoke. Must 
the poor soul roam tibout to get back here an atom ^om the cow there one 
from the pig, or dig yonder a particle from some man s muscle ? Particles ot 
Eve mav to-day be found in you and me. ,,_ i v 

What will the Creator do with the millions of people living on the globe 
at the time of the biWical resurrection, as the bible says: they shall not die 
but be merely transformed. Yet their bodies, every fibre, muscle and bone, 
their very being, is composed of the human remains ot all preceding gener- 
ations: Yet Istill believe that we shall live on. The Creator has implanted 
in our breast a desire, an expectation to live after the curtain falls here. And 
in nature's workshop there is nothing created in vam. Again persons having 
done willful wrongs fear the hereafter, which feeling of terror cannot be al- 
toi^ether attributed to their former education and teaching, but to the innate 
prTnciple living in the conscience and soul, that there is a continued existence 
hereafter, where the results of good or evil actions must Eeoessarly follow 
Ao-ain: man has an innate feeling that he is a part and parcel of that infinite 
bemg who exists forever. Man feels that he has in a limited measure a kin- 
dred spirit like the infinite ruler, which makes him akin. As law and ordei 
are found in nature, as the worlds move like a clock-work, this presupposes a 
controlino- intelligence who reasons from cause toeflect. ^ , ,. 

Thus mlm reasSns from cause to effect. He lays his plans controls his ac- 
tions and circumstances. Then this intelligence in man, and tiie approximate 



(12) between it and that manifested by the unknown intelligent caase.by the Su- 
preme ruler; but that the difference exists merely in degree. Thu* immor- 
tality and a Supreme ruler are necessarily co-existing and part and parcel of 
the great ocean of life. 

Secondh- : The kin-hip of man to the infinite being is shown by the com- 
mon attribute of activity, development gnd progress. Man is active, develops 
and progresses. So God sets the worlds in motion and develops out of dis- 
order — order; out of imperfection — perfection. When nature creates a func- 
tion it has also created a means for that function to be exercised. Wherever 
I find fire, I find water: wherever are birds to liy, there is air to fly in; 
wherever there is light, there are also eyes to see. and ears are' created for 
sounds. Thus our longing for the hereafter has some reality to respond to it. 
Nature teaches me immortality. The seasons go and come. Every returning 
Spring clads the fields in green verdure, and though the daisies bloom ana 
wither in a short time, yet the next spring — on the very spot — you see a 
now daisy lift up its head, accoutred in the same garb of promise. Nay, it i» 
so identical to that daisy which grew last year on the very same spot, that 
you won't be able to assert that it is not the same daisy sprung into life again 
after having taken a season of rest Thus then, though this outward form is 
mortal, yet our ^-w^/cif, our ^^rw-/f/ir is immortal. It lives on in the cycle of 
nature's evolutions. It knows not annihilation. As in the very throes of 
death of the outward form, the doors of the immortal open and it sends forth 
its offspring, to make again its round and act again its part on the billows of 
life. 

Life's germ in yonder stream immortal 
Was hailed alike by seer and prophet; 
« Life all pervading — all prevailing cause^ 
Not born by chance, but child of ua'ure's laws, 
Gift alike to shrub, pebble, fish; 
To insect, beast, and the heaving sea, 
And up from these to thinking man. 
Man, last product of the ever revolving cause, 
Creature ol proirressive cycle laws, 
Enwrapt in such mysterious awe. 
Sees here but the dawn of a brighter day, 
And in that distant, semi-curtained bourne 
No atom will be lost; no soul, or mind, 
Or spirit unit merged in kind, 
But all clustering Tike grapes unto the vine. 
Around the great I Am. 



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Author of " Ocean Wave. "^ —" Prometheus Diarial 

Account ■' — "' Eiiettini: Thous^ hts.'' etc. 

CONTENTS. 

Canto I. — Paradise Not Lost. — Libretto for a Grand Opera. 
Canto II. — Our Doughty Cantiniers. — Libretto for a Comic Operetta. 
(Synoptical Sketches. For the Complete Stage Version vide Author's MSS.) 
First Folio of a series of 12. by the same Author, consisting of Dramas. 
Poems, Pen Sketches and Lectures— to be published in succession. 

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PARADISE NOT LOST, 
BUT GAINED. 

OR 

THE OLD AND THE NEW WORLD. 



A LIBRETTO FOR A QRANI) OPERA. 



In II Alts and IV Tableatix. 
CAST OF PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 

Adam and Eve, - - - Our Scriptural first parents. 
Gabriel and Uriel. ..-..--- Angels. 
Serpent, ------ Scriptural seducer of Eve. 

Beelzebub and Satan. - - Scriptural chief devils. 

Jacob, A biblical patriarch. 

Joseph and his brethren. - - - - Jacob's sons. 

Moses and Aaron. Jewish prophets. 

Solomon, .-.--.- King of the Israelites. 
Socrates and Plato, - - - Greek philosophers. 

Jesus. - Scriptural Savior of mankind. 

Xantipe. - - ----- - - - Socrate's wife. 

Simon Puresimpleton, ) 

AND > Rivals in a lover's chase. 

Philosophy Jimcrack, > 
Juveniles, Olapodes. Utilities and Excentrics. 








PROLOGUE. 
Thou who on wings of morn gavest all earth light, 
Inspire this soul, who strives in prose or rhyme 
To speak and sing, or play on flute or lyre, 
Of first creation's molt and thee sublime. 
This stam'ring tongue, within its prison cell. 
Is far too stiff and words too crude to tell. 
Of thy bright glory, creator of men ; 
Unless the muses three with Protean fire, 
Tune harp and lyre, to my advent'rous song, 
And lead me on this lofty shining path. 
It matters not in this short vesper play, 
That savans of this latter day proclaim : 
"Scriptural creation and salvation. 
But an emblematic moral mirror, 
Of one unknown first cause, and cycle truths :" 
Enough fot us, if by its shimm'ring twilight. 
It leads us up to heaven's bright beacon light. 
Your pardon then, when on Pegasus wings 1 soar, 
O'er land and ocean wide to first creation's morn, 
To take a glimpse of that first pair in Paradise ; [time. 
And then with swiftest speed sweep down the march of 
To see the nations rise and fall till freedom's morn. 



4 ACT I. 

Scene I presents to us a ravine in front of the gate of 
Paradise. At its sides are rocky precipices, which, lead- 
ing up. brings us in the mountainous regions with its 
snow-capped summits : while the edges below are gar- 
nished with shrubs, ferns and weeds growing wild in their 
primeval state. Here we find gathered in a knot Satan 
and his legion, after having been eiected from, heaven. 
They are in a State of trepidation, mingled with defiance 
against tie heavenly powers who in a desperate battle 
have routed them. They are sitting around glimmering 
camp fires counselling what next to do. We find here Sa- 
tan and his army accoutered in all their pristine glory of 
ugliness and martial array, singing in chorus, to relieve the 
burdens of sorrow with which their hearts are weighed 
down from their late de feat — after which Satan addresses 
them to infuse new life into his rebellious host. The per- 
sonages, in this libretto, express their sentiments mostly 
in a chant, or oratorio styl e . suited to blank verse, of which 
'the greater part of this c anto is composed — with only a 
few verses in rhyme interspersed. 
Chorus: .A.way — away — we chase — consternation. 
Rebellion now is ouj- occupation. 
Though suffer we sc ores of tribulation. 
Vet we are still Sata n's tribe and nation. 

[-Exordium Primus.] 
Satan : Empyreal sons, companions, brothers, peers. 
You're still destined to soar with loftiest llights. 

Up to your father's home amid the skies. 

From whence you have been ignobly ejected. 

By cherubim an d their sycophant host. 

Yet cheerful be* though driven to the wall : 

All is not lost ; all is not yet quite lost. 

Too true the day was hot for our brave ranks ; 

Yet one swift turn of our force might have gained 

For us the day, and put their host to rout. ^ 

Behold I now heaven's raging sire sits on 

His throne rejoicing, and with mocking ire 

He views the fun'ral pile of dead and dying. 

And listens to the whining of his choir. 

Who humbly kneel and pray, extolling praise. 

To heaven's tyrant and the great I AM. 

To us hope still reinains, and it. our light. 

The motive power which will sway our armies. 

To-morrow on, to brave heroic deeds. 

We have measured strength with our puissant foe. 

Opposed and grappled with him bone to bone. 

Nay. worthy potentates, our ranks did more; 

Bravely they coped with a thrice stronger foe; 

This shows marrow yet in our brave army. 

If glimm'ring fortune will, we may. as yet, 

Before Phoebus wheels 'round his fiery car, 

I say : we may, as yet, hurl heaven's army 

From their vantage and celestial higlits, 

To pits of darkness low and deep beneath. 

Satan having now exhausted his ire, amid the accla- 
mation of his rank and file, sits down, and Beelzebub 

rises to dissuade them from further warfare, as he is for 

peace, and thinks to win their seats in heaven by guile, 

policy and strategy. 

[Exordium Placidus.] 

Beelzebub : With great respect to our Dominicus, 

.•\nd for the val'rous deeds of our army ; 

Yet I'm for peace, not active, open war. 

At least some short time for an armistice. 

M.eanwhile we gather strength, vigor and force; 



Apparent peace, well-mixed between with guile, , 5 

Will quicker gain foi us our seats in heav'n. 
I would dissuade, therefore, from open war. 
Our foe excels in numbers, therefore in strength. 
We have no means — dark are our ends in view. 
Our hopes of conquest lie in stratagems; 
In those devices hidden from the eye, 
Which have their spring and "grave within the soul. 
[Points to his breast. Satan now rises excitedly.] 
[Exordium Bellicose.] 
Satan : What, brethren ! let our foes enjoy thp spoil ? 
Shall we in future stay in the furthest. 
Coldest corner of the empyreal heav'n? 
Shall we be doomed to foul disgrace and rout ? I 

Shall we in bonds and chains of prison cells. 
Of the dark realm below, ignobly die? 
Or eke out our existence in torments? 
Nay, peers — infernal povv"rs — I say no — no. 
Thrice no, by all the firmaments above. 
And all the gapping gulphs beneath us. 
We who have twp day's battle nobly stood, 
Unvanquish'd, and our army still in arms. 
Procrastination is the bane of our cause. 
Received, we have a few slight surface wounds, 
Yet they will make our blood course more impetuous 
Through our hot veins and nerve our arms with povv'r, 
To drive with tempestuous blows our arrant foes 
From their ill-gained, short-lived lofty vantage. 
O, peers ! dominions, pow'rs ; have you forgot. 
How, on this very ill-omened dawn of day, 
Just as aurora, mounting her fiery car, 
To shed her orient pearls o'er sea and land. 
The fierce onslought we made? How we mowed down 
The solid columns of th' advancing foes ; 
Like grass they fell and wither'd, irom our sharp steel ; 
Torn and tattered were their puissant lines. 
Arch angels fell, and groand their haughty throng, 
At our unwelcome morning salutation. 
This was indeed a sight, a feast for gods. 
How their whole crew wallow'd in their life blood. 
The rest to run away, threw down their arms ; 
And this success was due to my invention. 
Necessity is the best inventor, sires. 
Ye compeers, think of this and my strong arm. 
Far reaching pow'r, and my prophetic sight. 
If in one night we can invoke sulphur 
And iron from the bowels of the earth. 
Shape them into engines of dreadful war. 
In th' twinkling of an eye we can do more. 
Do grander things when fortune smiles on us. 
What grand effect, on my command, "■Avant guard?" 
Our heavy siege guns send their bombshells. 
Into the inidst of their staunch file and rank. 
Behold the havoc sad it made of them. 
They crouch'd and slipp'd and fell — gracious heaven ! 
The pregnant air resounded with tumults loud, 
The battlefield echoed with destruction dire : 
The heavens bright, enwrapt in purple veil; 
Aivd then there shone our bright cuirasses. 
With myriads of flashing keen-edged swords. 
Cutting the lambient air for our noble cause. 
Such glorious sight and valorous brave deeds 
Would make the stony hearts of saints leap with joy. 
Thus lay down our glorious cause? No — thrice, no ! 
What though our wounds do bleed — our spirit essence 
Cannot be quenched 01 die by sharp-edge'd swords. 



6 These wounds will heal again and one cicatrice. 

Will breed ten thousand lives into new being. 

Yes, peers. I am for war — fight to the last. 

Ere than sit at a mocking conqueror's feet. 

The sacrifices which we to-day make 

Are worthy of our heritage to gain. 

Either on celestial throne \ve will sit. 

Or else we pray annihilation. 

If. brethren, thus you all agree with me. 

Then show it by the usual soldiers' sign. 

All rise, draw swords or- other weapons, and ^wing 
them in.the air enthusiastically. Sing in chorus. 
Chorus : Yes, yes. yes — we agree, quite, with our chief. 
War, war, war. can only give us relief. 

[Enter Gabriel with drawn sword, wings at back and 
golden helmet on head. As they see him they draw to- 
gether. 

[The Olive Branch.] 
Gab.: Foul fiends, still sitting in rebellious council. 
Apostates from our sovereign king on high. 
Ye who erstwhile sat with us round the throne. 
And sang to Alpha and Omega psalms ; 
While our merry voices fill'd the blue heav'n. 
Fit emblems then of innocence you were. 
In outer vestments and untarnished souls. 
Bethink youself. recall your glorious past. 
If spark of virtuous fire still in your soul. 
As contrite sinners, do return at once 
To him. who is all power, love and wisdom. 
And pardon he will grant at mercy's throne. 

[Satan rises, now agitated, and in defiant tones and 
gestures he answers. Rest, attitude of defiance.] 

[The Chant Defiant.] 
Sat.: Thinks thou to win us with bland words and smiles. 
Us whom in tt\-o day's fight with all your legions. 
Your high-toned heav'nly pow'rs could not subdue? 
We're ready now to take up heaven's gauntlet. 
We who have tasted sweet liberty. 
We do deny heaven's supremacy. 
And we defy your celestial powers. 
Impious, daring worm — us thou sayest. 
That we should bend a supplicant's knee: 
While thrice we vanquished your saintly pow'rs, 
Possess'd the bloody battlefield as ours. 
Our soaring pinions and our floating banners. 
Are now emblazoned with victoiy. 
This is too much : haughty cherub draw. 
Gab: I would like to smite thee with my sharp sword. 
Thou father of base lies and grim falsehoods. 
But I'll leave it to heaven's vengeance. 

Points with his sword upward where in rear in mid air, 
appears a golden scale. 
See there, the doom of your foul crew is sealed. 

The celestial powers seem to be now in dead earnest 
to destroy the remnant of the infernal crew still on re- 
bellion bent: as the sky frowningly lowers its brow, the 
thunder rolling and the lightening flashes over the heads 
of the now thoroughly frightened band of evil conspira- 
tors, while the earth shakes and opens beneath their 
feet, and swallows them up amid a volcanic eruptidh of 
fire issuing forth from its bowels. The spiritaal powers 
having now accomplislied this grand flank movement 
and annihilated the rest of their seditious brethern. the 
clouds now disperse, and again the blue vault of heaven 
smiles serenely on the terrestial fields below ; while th 
birds come from their hiding places and hum their ma 



Jn songs. Gabriel, the chief angel of Jehovah, now en- [7 
ters again upon the scene, and is on his way to inspect 
our scriptural first parents in Paradise. He meets in 
front of its gate Uriel, another angel who having heard 
of -this new creation, is on a journey of inquiry to see 
this new world, and to find out all about the modus 
operandi of its creation. Gabriel relates to him the ob- 
ject and purpose of the creation of this new world, after 
which he conducts Uriel into Paradise to see for himself. 
Gab : Fair angel, just arrived in our mundane sphere ? 
From your celestial courts which blaze with light. 
Uriel : Just this moment 1 descended to see 
Your sapphire gates of mundane paradise. 
With my own eyes to view what by report, 
1 heard in heav'n of this created world. 
And of Adam and Eve, these two new beings. 
So that I might more zealous worship him, 
Who sits on th' hallow'd hill 'mid celestial throngs. 
Do pray tell me of this new creation ? 

[Creation.] 
Gab : Thus was it then just after heaven's sire 
Had conquered Satan and his legions. 
He cast them in'the dark deep pits of hell. 
Where now amid sulpheric fire they howl. 
And gnaw their teeth about their fallen state. 
God said then to his dear beloved son : 
"To fill the vacant places 'round our throne. 
I have determined to create a new world 
Also a new creature, whiah I'll call man. 
I will shape him from earth's raw material, 
Yet he shall be endowed with our essence, 
So that in some degree he'll be like us. 
Have spiritual affinity with us. 
He shall be free, endow'd with pow'r of choice, 
To choose the good or bad — accept me 
His maker, or disobey my command. 
In knowledge he shall grow in due limits. 
He shall be finite while he is on earth. 
It shall be for him a place of probation ; 
And when his race is run. to earth he shall return. 
But if of worth, I'll take his spirit essence 
Up to our heavenly royal mansion ; 
And make him there, infinite in knowledge. 
And his spirits being immortal.'" 
Thus spake Jehovah to his son. • 

There was a vast abj^ss right north of heav'n, 
Where oceans of atoms floated through space, 
And huge conglommerated masses. 
In wild confusion traversed the Universe, 
By virtue of the centrifugal forces. 
God bade them now to regulate their course, 
Then in due time atom joined with atom. 
Rotating on in their regular grooves. 
Now solid and liquid atoms divorc'd 
By virtue of the calorific force. 
Thus were grand ocean and her billows formed, 
Then garth — solid and with magic beauty. 
Rose like a fairy from its wat'ry grave. 
Within its womb — the germs of vegetation. 
Also animated creation. 
Thus by the law negative and positive, 
It brought now forth feminine fruition. 
See yond orbs are called sun, moon, and stars. 
Each has its cycle of rotation ; 
With divers function each and matter. 
Related to the surrounding universe. 



8 Thus sun. moon, and stars are but metal jars, 

Charged by that fierce agent electricity ; 

In its positive and negative forces. ^ 

Each orb composed thus of divers matter. 

Var'ous in quantity and molecules. 

Produce these divers luminaries. 

The sun's bright light which now illumes the earth. 

Is dift" rent from the light he gives to other globes. 

The atmosphere — that great receptacle. 

Of these mongrel orbicular forces. 

Contains a mass of floating particles, 

Which easily ignite and do combust : 

As they collide on their air.y journey. 

Thus in this glowing incandescent state. 

They give to earth and man their glor'ous light. 

Uriel : You get a little off the track : 

To man. you spoke of, bring me back. 

Gab : I come now to my final epilogue. 

The earth in its green garb was fair to sight. 

And on its face roamed all kinds of wild beasts : 

Yet there failed one link in the chain of creation. 

This to complete the round — God created man, 

And gave to him fair woman, as a mate. 

You will soon see them when I lead you through. 

The jasper gate of earthly paradise. 

Where in a roseate frag'rent bower they repose, 

Both clad in nature's garb of innocence. 

Uriel : Confrere, lead on — lead on — so I see them. 

Gabriel having now completely apprised his confrere, 
opens the gate of Paradise into which both enter. The 
brilliant scene now presented to our view, beggars de- 
scription. Here we find it, in its scriptural coloring and 
oriental splendor. Flowers and rare exotics vying in 
their glory. Rivulets and fountains mingling their spray 
with tlie zephyrs which are dallying with the greeir foli- 
age, while the primeval animal world roams around here 
animated by the soul of peace. Here we also behold 
the quoted tree of life with its apples; and near by a 
bower wherein Adam and Eve indulge in their noctur- 
nal slumbers. This scene presents to us the oft repeat- 
ed story of the pristine bliss of our first|parents in Par- 
adise : the seduction of Eve by the wily serpent, and the 
final eviction of our sot Jissant progenitors from their 
abode of indolence. Before, we see the mother of the 
world's generations: we hear her in her bower chant her 
s^loria dc Deum. After which she appears upon the 
scene. 

Let me praise thee, my creator. 

Love thee, worship and adore. 

And let these lips for ever, evermore. 

Their hallelujah to high heaven soar. 
■ Hallelujah — hallelujah. 

To thee, now, and forever more. 
Eve now emerges from her bower with disheveled hair, 
flower wreath around head. She walks to fountain, lays 
down at edge and looks into it. Seeing her own image 
therein. She soliloquises with image in water. 

[An Optical Illusion.] 
Eve : Are you a woman like myself? 
It winks, it must have not much tongue. 
Can you not speak ? else speak louder. 
She winks : she can't express her feelings. 
How long have you been in this condition ''. 
She winks : she has always had this mission. 
Don't you find it rather wet there ? 
She winks : she is dry like a hen. 



I guess she means that she is inside dry. 9 

Have you about you such a thing as a husband ? 

She nods : water nymphs do not marry. 

Wouljl you pfefer male or female companions? 

She likes two gallant male companions. 

Adieu — adieu — fare thee quite ever well. 

'Tis passing strange when I do move, she moves. 

[She now rises.] 
I now will go and weed yon flower bed, 
And trim those rankled rose bushes. 
Bind up the luxurious ivyes, 
Cut then the vines, and cull the luscious grapes, 
And their ambrosial nectar press, 
Into my cocoanut rind goblet. 
To make a drink fit fdV the gods to sip. 
The noon day sun stands at its zenith. 
My ov/n .\dam will soon be here. 
To rest awhile from his days' sport, 
And drink out of my hand the sparkling wine. 

Enter serpent, is of checkered color, with a human 
face, feet and hands but serpentine shape, he moves in 
undulating motions? almost erect. Moves to tree and 
stands there erect, resting its head against one of the 
branches. 

But lo ! what fair creature comes here ? 
[Colloquial Seduction.] 
Serpent : Fair daughter, at thy shrine I come to kneel, 
Thou art the fairest being with soul endowed. 
That lives in this enchanted realm of ours. 
Thou does deserve to sit on heaven's throne. 
And wear the crown of heaven's queen. 
Instead of which you roam around with brutes, 
Who lack communion of speech and soul. 
Eve : Thou gentle beast — thou speakest fair, 
But do tell me — tell me truly. 
Is there another world, than this ? 
S : Fair Eve, 'tis true — there is — there is. 
E : I like quite well thy speech, but am surprised 
To hear thee speak, a brute like you ; 
Like all dumb brutes who want discourse. 
But pray, who gave thee so much tongue V 
S : I got the knowledge which I now possess, 
By eating of the fruit from this green tree. 

[Plucks off an apple.] * 
Which like the magic wand gave to me speech. 
And called my cerebral functions into action, 
With it, on me dawned the light of reason. 

[Offers apple to her.] 
Ah, goddess fair, partake with me, 
With knowledge it will thee endow, 
And you will equal be with celestial pow'rs, 
Who now keep thee in chains of darkness dire. ■ 
The world outside this garden spot. 
Is wond'rous fair for mortal to behold. 
O'er which, fair queen, you will yet reign. 
E.: You, gentle beast, you speak me fair ; 
But of this tree we were forbid to eat. 
Yet as its fruit such virtue wrought in you. 
Gave you this gracious garb, manner and speech ; . 

[Takes apple.] 
1 will then taste its lucious flavors. 
And try its power and virtue on me. 

Eats apple, after a while she becomes hilarious, and 
acts as if partially intoxicated. 
E.: Great God I what glorious, what grand effect, 
Exhilerates the action of my heart. 



lo And brain it liL;hts with eyes of flame, 
I feel a sweet delirium creeping o'er me. 

She and serpent now are seen love making, and sing a 
duet. 

S.: Ha-ha, I knew my medicine would work. 
E.: Yes, gentle beast, I love thee now to marry, 
With thee to pluck the matrimonial berry. 
S. and E.: O, yes, each other we do warmly love. 
Intoxicating is our cupid's bough. 
Then let us merry — merry be, 
Always happy, jolly, and free. < 

Adam is seen now standing at corner watching, he has 
a prunning hook on shoulder. Eve and Serpent now 
embrace, and latter sneaks out, while Adam advances 
slowly, shows anger. 

Adam : Why, this looks rather passing strange, 
To see my Eve so near a beast. 

[Now near her, is more cheerful. Aloud.] 
Ha, here I find my late espoused, 
Bone of my bone, sole partner of my joy. 
But yet, what is the matter with my doe? 
I see in you, a strange transformation. 

[The apple tree.] 
E.: While here I posed "mid roses and lilies, 
There came to me through cranberry shrubs. 
One of the beasts Which roam in our fair place : 
Attir'd in gorgeous robes of diff'rent hues. 
Gifted with reason keen, and sublime speech, 
And told me in his winning ways, that these 
He gained by eating of this forbidden tree. 
He plucked an apple then, and gave it me. 
I ate of it and soon the elixir. 
Of knowledge, graces fair and a new life, 
Thriird every fibre of my new being. 
1 know now that I am a woman. 
Also for what 1 am created ; 

Cupid, on swiftest wings speeds through my veins. 
[Plucks apple fromtreeand holds itout to Adam to eat.] 
Eat this, if in thy heart thou lovest me. 
When share thou wilt with me this amorous passion. 

Adam goes off a little, shaking his head ; is apparent- 
ly agitated. Serpent comes now wriggling in again, when 
all at once Adam rushes up to him and knocks him on 
head: kill* him. Stands over serpent and sings, while 
Eve shrieks and faints, but shortly comes to again. 
A.: Ah, wiley serpent, die ! Father of lies. 
Thou art the cause why my happiness flies. 
Produced, thou hast, woes for generations. 
Prepared for us a host of tribulations. 

[Walks oft' a little, loudly sobbing, while Eve rises.] 
E.: What have you done, Adam of nations? 
Brought on us the curse of damnation. 

[Our First Husband's Verdict.] 
A.: My Eve— mother of future generations^ 
A daring deed thou hast done, to eat — 
To eat of this interdicted apple tree. 
We had the fill of nature's bounteous gifts ; 
And yet in rebellion thou has risen, 
Against Jehovah's mild alwise decree. 

^^side.] 
Kind heaven, why was 1 so short-sighted, 
To leave her thus alone to tempter's snare? 
Now future generations will me curse. 
O, fickleness ! Thy counterpart is woman. 
Divine in shape — oi such gentle mettle. 
Ambition mad, and with envious eyes. 



She mounted up to celestial hights, ii 

To gaze upon the sacred courts in heav'n. 

She now in turn becomes my tempter. 

Gracious heaven ! Deal with me gently. 

Ordained to be free ; yet my fate is fixed ; 

With her my lot is cast — I am her slave. 

I am the centerpole of her affection ; 

This is the chain of her magic power ; 

I share her virtue and will share her vice ; 

And.be her partner in the coming doom. 

If so decreed by heav'ns mysterious pow'r. 

Though hope still whisper's in my longing heart. 

That heav'n will relent from its severe decree. 

He who rules all is e'er on mercy bent. 

He approaches her again. She holds apple out to him 
and he takes it. 

A.: Sole partner of my joy, I eat the fruit. 
With thee I'll live and with thee die. 

Eats apple. Appears intoxicated. They sing now a 
duet, amid love-making. 

A.: Ha ! I am now under the fascinating spell, 
My blood and pulses beating now pell mell. 
E.: My sturdy partner, thou — I told you so ! 
'Tis joy of soul will make us dance tip-toe. 
A. and E.: Oh, rapture — oh, 'tis bliss divine, 
More sweet than nectar or good wine, 
So mote it be — the matrimonial bee. 
From this green apple-tree — this apple tree. 

A pause. A cloud appears on eminence. A light 
shines faintly through it. An unseen voice speaks at 
which they show fright. 
Voice: Adam — Adam — where art thou ? 

Both pluck leaves from tree and use them as aprons, 
and conceal themselves partially. 
A.: I'm here, my lord, but fear thee to behold, 
As now I see I'm nude and might get cold. 
v.: Hast thou eaten of that forbidden tree? 
A.: The woman, sire, thou gavest me, was tempted. 
By one of your fair creatures of the field. 
She ate of that forbidden tree and spoke it fair ; 
And thus induced by her I ate the fruit. 
v.: As thou hast been neglectful of my command, 
Henceforth eat bread by the sweat of thy. brow, 
And baste yourself to leave these holy bowers, 
Thy sinful partner shall have plenty woe, 
'Mid pain bring forth the fruit of her ripe womb. 
Her seed shall curse the serpent's hoary head. 
A.: How long, O Lord, wilt thou us banish ? 
v.: For many years, thou and thy partner frail. 
Shall tug along life's onerous path ; 
And then you'll fall asleep for a good while 
Until I wake you up in Edgewood Grove, 
To view with her the world's onward progression. 

Enter now four angels with drawn swords and drive 
Adam and Eve out. 

Angels: Hence ! Leave these sacred precincts. 
Away — away — depart. 

[Adam embraces Eve and takes her hand going out.] 
A. and E.: O, yes, we will together go, 
And jointly bear pleasure or woe. 
A.: Be not disfnayed, my dear frail partner then, 
Together we shall see, yet, Edgwood Glen. 

They disappear, angels after them. A chorus of un- 
seen voices is heard now singing in rear, accompanied by 
orchestra out of view. 
Let there be light, the heavens now are bright. 



12 The Lord, our God. has spoken in his might. 
And drove the evil one from out his sight 
Mankind can now walk in his holy light. 

Hallelujah — hallelujah, 

We sing to thee. Lord of the skies. . 



TABLEAUX. 

The following six scenas are simply panoramic views. 
The principal localities of each scene are portrayed on a 
moving canvas. As the canvas picture is presented, the 
personages enter and perform, and exeunt as the scene 
passes away. 

The first view presented, is Jacob's abode of oriental 
structure — Time, 1728 B. C. Enter Jacob and his son 
Joseph, dressed in oriental style, Jacob with long white 
beard, Joseph having on a motly colored frock, [night.] 

[Jacobitical Family Jars.] 
Jos.: My sire, t had some strange wild dreams last 
Lo I I was binding sheaves witli my brothers, 
In yonder yellow stubble-field of ours. 
My sheaves arose, and my brothers' sheaves, 
In humble pose obeisance bowed to mine. 
And then I had another cur'ous dream. 
The moon and stars twinkled and winked at me. 
Jac: My dear, dear son, has it come to this pass. 
That I thy sire, thy mother and brethern, 
Shall humbly bow to thee? cast ofif those dreams, 
Evil they are. and dream no more, no more. 
In yonder field labor with honest toil, 
And see if it be well with thy brethern 
In yon pasture, and bring me word again. 

They exeunt at R. A little while after, the scene 
changes to the pasture field. Pictures of cows, sheep, 
camels, etc., are on canvas. After which enter at L. the 
ten sons of Jacob in Shepherd's dress having'some dogs 
with them. 

1st Son : I tell you it is time to put this sappling, 
This overgrown brother out of the way. 
2nd Son : 'Tis true, he is the spoiled twig of our sire, 
We must endure cold, heat, wet and the draught. 
In guarding here in field our father's flock. 
While he sits at home, in his checker'd frock. 
3rd Son : And then behold the arrogance he shows. 
To us his ill favor'd shepherd brethern. 
I think he will receive the sole blessing. 
Of our old sire and take the whole domain. 

(Points outward.) 
2nd S.: Ho, brethern, ho ! here comes this petted imp, 
Sent by our feeble sire to watch o'er us. 
Majestical he struts his path along. 
Kill him we must, this obnoxious weed. 
Or else is lost our paternal heritage. 
All : He must be put away, away, away, 
Out of the way, he clouds our rising stars. 

Now Joseph enters, in previous garb, wears sandals. 
All manifest wild gestures, and then rush forward and 
lay hold upon him. He appears to be frightened. One 
of them opens a trap door. 
Jos.: Brethern, be merciful, be merciful, 
I never, nay never harmed or wronged you. 
1st S.: Let's put him in this cave beneath our feet. 
Meanwhile we'll counsel what is best to do. 
All : Well said, well said, let us do it. 

[They drag him now to hole.] 
Jos.: Help I help I murder — murder — help ! 

They shove him down and let trap door down. All 



ooking wild, standing around hole. A pause, after which 
enters Judah, also in shepherd's dress — all turn to him. 
Jud.: What's up brethern ? why look ye all aghast? [13 
Methought, as 1. was watching yonder flock, 
I saw ou'r younger brother Joseph pass, 
And after it, I heard a cry for help. 
I hope you did not harm, this our brother. 
Else you bring with sorrow our sire in th' grave. 
Ru.: We caught this unprofitable proud twig. 
He \s an enemy to our welfare. 
And thus we mean to squeeze the vital spark, 
Out of this dangerous vile youth. 
All : Aye, that we mean to do — aye, mean to do. 
Jud.: What profits us, this high-handed proceeding? 
He is our brother still — our flesh and bone. 
1 see there in the distance drawing nigh, 
A caravan of Midian merchants. 
Let's sell him, and to Egypt he will go, 
And never trouble us again, nor our sire. 
To whom we'll tell, that some wild beast devour'd him, 
In proof of which we show him his son's frock. 
Which we will dye, in, crimson blood of a kid. 
All : Well said, well said, brother Judah. 

[Enter now a caravan of oriental travelers, having 
along cam.els well packed.] 

Jud.: A salaam to you, merchants of the plain ; 
We offer you for sale, a nice young man, 
To us for years in service duly bound. 
If you will take him to Egypt's happy land. [land,] 

Merchant : Our course lies up the Nile, the promised 
We are in need of one to drive our camels. 
We will thus strike a bargain, if agreed, 
Arid for him give you twenty silver pieces. 
All : Agreed, agreed, we strike a bargain. 

[They pull him out now ; strip him of his frock.] 
Jos.: Don't sell me brethern, for heavens' sake, 
I'll be always your humble servant. 

They drag him out now — Joseph resists, cries help, 
and his brethern stand in a group on tip toe, seeing him 
go out. Scene now shifts away, and they march out with 
the scene. The new scene now appearing presents Pha- 
raoh's palace in Egypt. Enter Joseph in regal garb. 
A black page carrying a chair sets it down and with- 
draws. Joseph sits down. Time, 17 16 B. C. 

[The Tables turned ] 
Jos.: Send in the steward at once. 

[Boy bowing and exits.] 
Jos.: A dream I had so many years ago. 
While yet innocent, in my father's house. 
But for this dream my brethern exiled me, 
To this land of Egypt, my new found home. 
And true it has became, my boyhood's dream. 
My brethern now have come and humbly bow. 
Before me, their unknown and despised brother. 
Though fortune since has smiled on me, 
And now Egypt's proud ruler I be. 
There is a famine in my native land. 
And they have come to fill their sacks with corn. 
I am exalted now, above them in station. 
Yet still, I will forget and will forgive. 
My heart long^ still to press them to my breast, 
I will quest them, to test their change of heart ; 
To see if now they have for sure repenteil. 
And love me like a brother now. 

[Enter Stewart.] , ' 

Stewart, has thou then put the silver cup, 



14 And money in the'r sacks, as I commanded? 

Stewart: I did, my lord — I did my lord. 

I then overtook them, searching their sacks. 

And took away the money and the cup.. 

On which discov'ry, they tore their garments. 

And gave utterance to lamentations ; 

They have returned, to meet your condemnation. , 

Jos.: Away, away, bring them before me now. 

Stejvart exit ; and in a little while returns with the 1 1 
of Joseph's brethern, with their camels laden with sacks. 
Jos.: You have rewarded then evil for good? 
Jud.: What shall we say. unto my lord, 
How clear ourselves of these odious charges ? 
God visits on us no"' a righteous punishment. 
For our sins done in years gone past. 
As we then wronged Joseph, our youngest brother. 
Behold we are all your lordship's servants. 
For our sire said : If you don't bring Benjamin home. 
You shall not see your fathers face again. 
And I my lord, became surety for the lad. 
Jos.: You say you had a brothar, Joseph by name? 
Jud.: Yes. sire, therefore God's judgment is on us. 
Though often we have mourn'd for this base deed. 
[Joseph rushes towards them while saying:] 
Jos.: I am your long lost brother Joseph. 
[He embraces them — they manifest fear and surprise.] 
Jos.: Now come with me to my festive gay halls. 
By feast to celebrate our reunion. 

[All link hands now, Joseph at the head and sing in 
chorus. 

Chor.: We have found him — we have found him ; 
Our long lost, our long lost brother. 
We brethren now are reunited. 
The lamp of fraternal love is liglited. 
Therefore let us happy, happy be, 
A happy, happy lot ai-e we. 

They exeunt now, led on by Joseph. Scene now 
changes to a view of Mount Si'nai Time 1450 B. C. 
An altar appears at the foot of the mountain with the 
figure of a golden calf on it. Enter Aaron, having a 
wand in hand, followed by a crowd of noisy Jewish rabble. 

[The Knot which ties.] 
Aar.: Idolators, there is your brazen god, 
Which I have fashioned for you out of clay; 
Because our Moses is still in the mountain, 
Now you can worship this image of clay. 

They all kneel before it and worship it, while Aaron 
goes a little front, addressing unseen being. 
A.: Thou great creator of heaven and earth. 
Behold this idolatrous people, 
Now humbly worshipping this golden calf. 
While Moses thy faithful, faithful servant, 
Tarries in the mountain at thy command. 
Thou who from Pharaoh's ignoble hands 
Didst make them free, and ledst them through the sea, 
And fed with manna them in the wilderness. 

They all rise now and dance in front of calf; then sing 
in chorus. 

Chorus: We worship now a golden calf; 
A golden calf, a golden calf. 
We love him on high not half. 
Not half so much as this calf. 
This golden calf, this golden calf, 
^ Looking pretty like the elf. 
Devil, devil, little devil. 
We worship thee, oh, little devil. 



It thunders and the lightning flashes across. AH [i5 
group together, now afifrighted. in one corner, while Mo- 
ses enters at other side with two tablets in his hands. 
Mos.: 'What noise heard I the children of Israel make, 
While I descended from the mountain ? 
Methought I heard a shout of Jubilee. 

[Sees calf. To Aaron, who approaches.] 
But what is that ? Tell me quickly. 
A.:, I was compelled by these vile hordes a brazen god 
To make, whilst thou didst tarry in the mount. 
Said they: "Let us make gods who go before, 
For we wot not what did befall our leader." 
M.: Did thus they act ? This superstitious rabble 
Who were our Creator's special care, 
Those stiff-necked hordes — do they justinow rebel? 
And none of Israel's tribe on the Lord's side? 
A.: Be not so angry, father Moses, 
For still there is the tribe of Levy left. 
M.: Thank God ! one still left under our banner. 
Bring them hither. Away, away, away. 

J^Aaron exit.] 
I'll thus destroy this seditious crew. 
Renegades from the covenants of heaven. 
But those who shall abide with him. 
The Lord will give the promised land. 
Where milk and honey flows — milk and honey flows. 

Enter Jewish priests carrying tabernacle, a crowd of 
Jews following them, some play on harps and cymbals. 
They stop, and Moses in front of them reads from tab- 
lets the ten commandments. 
M.: I am the lord, thy master and thy God. 
Beside me thou shalt have no other Gods. 
Keep thou, the Sabbath of the lord, holy. 
Thou shalt not take the name of God in vain. 
Thy father and thy mother do honor. 
Thy brother man, never with malice kill. 
Commit thou not, in fact adultery. 
Also beware, feloniously to steal. 
Of perjury, let thy loose tongue be free. 
Nor covet thy neighbor's house, wife, maid, or ass. 

It thunders and lightning flashes again, amid which 
the procession marches out at R., while the scene moves 
also that way, out of sight. The next scene brings us to 
1015 B. C. and presents to us Solomon's temple. 

Enter Solomon in regal habit, is carried in by four 
pages, sitting on one of those oriental sedan chairs, used 
by potentates in the orient. They set it down. 

[Solomon's Tips oe'er Many Ribs.] 
Sol.: 'Tis well, ye slaves, depart. 
By an all-wise decree I am placed here, 
As sovereign king of all Israel, 
Therefore I pray to thee omniscient God. 
To give to me an understanding mind. 
Also a sympathizing gen'rous heart. 
So that I may my people justly rule, 
And mercy reason all my just decrees. 

[Enter a Lackey.] 
Lakey : There are without two female disputants. 
They have a quarrel for you to decide. 
Sol.: I will terrd to them, so let them enter. [L. exit,] 
The office of a ruler is onerous. 
Not only to decide affairs of state ; 
But also the strife of washer-women. 
And the legions of hot private disputes. 
Our crown is cluster'd full of pearls, called cares. 
Which weigh us down, but yet it must be done. 



i6 Re-enter lackey with two women, one carrying a live, 

and the other a dead child. 

1st Woman : I and this woman did dwell together. 

I was delivered of a handsome child. 

The night thereaft, this lady at my side, 

Gave also birth to a still-born infant ; 

At midnight she arose — your handmaid slept, 

And from me took my bonnie child. 

Laying her dead one to my heaving breast. 

Next morning I awoke to suck my babe. 

When lo ! I found this spurious brat, stone dead.' 

2nd Woman : Nay, it is but an optical illusion. 

The living child mine, the dead one hers. 

Sol.: Each of you say, the living child is hers, 

And that the dead one is the other's ; 

1 cannot pass judgment on proof like this. 

Bring in the executioner with his axe, 

Fll do equal justice, and part in halves. 

The living one, and each shall have her share. 

Enter executioner in scarlet dress, with block and axe. 
Sol.: Lay this child on your bloody block, 
And cleave it in two equal halves. 

[Executioner takes child and lays it on block.] 
2nd W.t Aye, my good lord, a most, most, just decree ; 
So each of us will get an equal share. 
1st W.: Stop ! stop ! you bloody butcher, stop, 
. I will desist, and here renounce my claim. 
Sol.: Give this little wee-wee baby. 
To the sacrificing lady. 

Executioner gives it to ist woman, and she goes out 
exultant, the other in a rage. Executioner also exit with 
his tools. 

Sol.: It takes a clear, discerning mind, 
To even run the course of public justice, 
I understood a real mother's feelings 
Not to sacrifice her heart's offspring. 
I find the women are litigations ; 
J^ stubborn set of willful creatures. 
And this I learned by sad experience. 
As I'm a rather muchly married man, 
And my wives are numbered by the legion. 
The frail charms of women make wise men fools, 
And in mine eyes 1 do appear degrad'd. (Looks out.) 
Ah, there ! I see them come, my many ribs, 
They make a charge on me in solid phalanx. 

[Rises from sedan.] 
Ahem I ahem ! what course I now pursue? 
I must depart, or else I am undone. (Hesitates.) 

Too late, for me to fly to my close cot, 
I better stay and meet the onslaught manfully. 

Enter now a lot of Solomon's wives with acclamations 
and manifestations of joy. They all hang on to him, and 
embrace him, he acts the patient martyr. 
Sol.: A misfortune it is, to wear the breeches. 
[They all group themselves and sing.] 
Chorus : We have him now. our Solomon, 
He is a very precious bone. 
Let us hug him, let us kiss him, 
This fills our hearts with joy brimful. 
[Solomon now breaking away from them.] 
Sol.: You ride this horse with love to death, 
I cannot pay all this cupid's debt. 

Rushes out, women after him, hanging on hi^ gar. 
ments, with shout of jubilee. The sedan is carried out. 
AU move out at R. Scene moves same way out of sighj- 



The next scene presents, at night, the suburb of Ath- 17 

ens, and Socrates' cottage. Time, 400 B. C. ^ 

[Not a Petruchio.] 
• [Enter Socrates in front of his cottage.] 

Socrates : I've been discussing with rhetors politics, 

And metaphysics with philosophers. 

So that it has grown late to-night, 

And my watch points to the eleventh hour. 

Gentle Xantipe, thou art slumbering now, 

Yes", gentle is she when in bed asleep, 

Awake, she is a fearful Jupiter. 

How limited is our mundane knowledge.- 

How foolish are too often the most wise. 

Knowledge is but a niche to things concealed ; 

And then how short, the span of wisdom's sight. 

We're wise when we have learned our own weakness. 

Learn'd that we cannot pierce into the hidden realms, 

Of light, or darkness, yond our short vision. 

But let me knock, to see the lamb transformed 

Into a lion, awake, awake ! your lord 

Returned home — she must be fast asleep ; 

Nothing as yet, ho, wife ! gentle Xantipe, 

Open your door, your Socrates is home. 
Now the window in second etage opens. A candle light 

appears in window, and his wife sticks her head out — 
head enveloped in night-cap, she has a vessel of water in 

hands, which she throws on Socrate's head, then with- 
draws and closes window, saying : 
Xantipe : It is, it is, my dear Socrates. 
Philosophize o'er this until to-morrow. 
Soc: It was lightning all day, I expected 
A thunderstorm at this dark night. 
I will not disturb your sleep gentle wife. 
But go at once again to our market place. 
There to instruct the youths of Athens. 
Fare you ever well, yea ever well. 

Exit at R. — a little after enters Xenophon, Plato, and 
other pupils of Socrates. 

Xenophon : Here we are, at our dear master's home ; 
I wonder if he has gone upstairs to rest? 
Plato : Have then already Athens' senators. 
Condemned Socrates, our teacher and sire? 

('Eteaaial the Soul.) 
Xen.: He is condemned to die, by his own hand. 
To drink the poisonous cup of hemlock. 
The sight before our tribune was sublime. 
Not like a cur he stood there, begging for dear life. 
Nay not him, but he stood erect, god-like. 
Out of his eyes there shot a searing fire. 
Which scorched to crisp his foul accusers. 
He said: his cause must live, though he must die. 
And it perchance he should go free again, 
He would anew thus teach our youths of Athens. 
His eloquence, my lips cannot portray ; 
But must be seen and heard by ears, and felt by hearts. 
He shook his hearers now with storms of passion, 
Then swift with eagle's wings he soar'd to the sublime. 
Again, with gentle curves his voice to murmur sank. 
His vocalism. struck you, as if you heard 
The last chords <of a grand orchestral chorus. 
Wafting its last notes on the calm ambrosial air. 
His voice, oft in cadence rang, gentle as the dove. 
Or the murmuring of the meand'ring brook. 
Thus he led them on, by his flow'ry speech. 
Till by its charm, you felt as if passing. 
Amid the zephyrs of an enchanted grove. 



1 8 And then again, fic-cely he scorned his foes. 

Defiance bid to his base judges. 

His face shone with halo bright, as he cried out : 

My doctrine and I will live though my body, 

A victim of your malice dies. 

All : Bravo ! bravo ! bravo ! 

(A pause, after which re-enters at L. Socrates.) 
Socrates: Ha ! have you all assembled at my cot? 
But be not dismayed, that I go hence. 
What I have said, will live forever. 
Proclaim I did to doubting mankind, ' 

The boon of life's immortality. 
Men's souls pass here a transitory stage ; 
After it is set free, from this frail form, 
It wanders forth to congenial climes. 
In heaven's garb, it does roam about, 
In yon elysian fields of perfect bliss. 
You saw the glory of the setting sun ; 
So ends our mundane tlick'ring, fleeting life. 
But like the rising sun sheds orient pearls, 
The soul will rise in new realms of beauty. 
Keep thus this blessed boon steadfast in sight ; 
Teach then, the greatest study of mankind, is man. 
And that well doing is the noblest work of life. 
(Enter Athenian officers, one carries the cup of hemlock.) 
Soc: Hah! my hour has come, there are the henchmen. 
We owe a cock to .Esculapins, 
Discharge the debt and pray omit it not. 
("live me the cup, I am prepared to die. 

(He takes it and drinks.) 
"Tis done, 'tis done, my mission is fulfilled. 

He is about sinking — falls in his disciples' arms — all 
stand aghast — they carry him out, procession follows. 
After a pause, the scene moves out the same way, and 
the new scene appearing, presents the temple in Jerusa- 
lem. Time, 32 years A. C. 

(Chant De Messiah.) 
Enter two Jews conversing. 
1st J.: Have you heard of the news in Jerusalem? 
2nd J.; Not yet. I've just returned from Bethsada. 
1st J.: Not heard of one Jesus of Gallilee? 
And his great wonders there performed. 
2nd J.: Only rumors ; pray tell me of his deeds. 
1st J.: In years past, born in a crib at Bethlehem, 
The shepherds while herding their grazing flocks, 
Appear'd to them at night, a host of angels. 
The heavens shoTie with refulgent glorj- ; 
And sang the host : Rejoice — rejoice. 
For there is born unto you this midnight, 
A savior, the christ, your lord. 
Years have since rolled on, this Jesus grew apace, 
Has since done multitudes of wonders. 
The scribes have searched the holy scriptures. 
And they say : from Bethlehem should come, 
Our people's saviour and king. 
And now they say: that he is christ, indeed. 
Of whom our ancient prophets spoke, 
A king to free us from our foreign foes. 
And at this hour, he is approaching 
To our city, and will pass hard by here. 
2nd J.: Glory to Czod. if thus our prayers are heard. 
The prophetic promise is then fulfilled. 
The Messiah has come to deliver, 
Israel from yoke of foreign bondage. 

(Going, pulling other out.) 
•Away, away, let us go see him come. 



They exeunt at R. while after a while enters Jesus 19 
and his disciples. 

Jesus : You go to yonder near by inn ; 
There you fin^ tied to a mullberry tree, 
A sturdy ass, and prancing colt. 
Bring hither them, and if asked wherefore ; 
Say then : our master has need of them. 
This must be done, that it might be fulfilled, 
Of which the prophets spoke in epochs past. 
Saying : tell ye the daughters of Zion, 
Behold ! thy king cometh unto the meek. 
Sitting on an ass's back. 

D'sciple now re-enters, with ass and colt ; is followed 
by a crowd of Jews, men, women, and children, carrying 
palm and olive branches. He mounts ass, some spread 
their coats on the ground. 
Chorus : Hosannah, hosannah, hosannah. 
To David''s son, to David's son, 
Hosannah, hosannah to the Lord. 

All swing their branches, procession marching out. 
ACT. II. 

Scene i brings us^to a period of 2,000 years A. C, to 
a time on which we have not yet entered ; but which, 
when it makes its appearance, we fondly hope, will find 
mankind in greater harmony and prosperity. A time 
when our minds have more expanded, and peace with its 
white winged banner will float over the nations. The 
locality of our meeting is a grove, a sort of suburb to a 
model metropolis. The time ; the eve of the aniversary 
fete of national independence and freedom. Here we 
meet on the road, Simon Puresimpleton and Gimcrack, 
two of our country cousins, who are on their way to see 
to-morrow, the great national celebration in the city, and 
also, by way of a little diversion, to meet their sweet- 
hearts, who have been the cause of softening their brains, 
and of making their hearts vealy. Here, we also meet 
Adam, our first parent, whom the allwise ruler has awak- 
ened from his long sleep, to take a peep at the world 
now ; and to enliven his old soul, has also determined te 
resurrect Eve, his whilom partner, to share his joy. 
First, we find our friend Gimcrack, well stocked with a 
cider jug, to still his thirst, on his pilgrimage to the Cap- 
itol. 

Gim.: It was a wise provision for my aunt to give me 
some sweet cider along, else I would have dried up like 
a mummy, before reaching the city to see my lassie, at 
this 4th of July celebration. 

(Bucolic Shrimps.) 
I had thus quite a morning stroll. 
To play my part in lover's role. 
Vineyards I passed, and beds of flowers, 
While lisping leaves and meand'ring brooks. 
Joined with the birds to pass away the hours. 
The nightingales sang from many nooks. 
'Twixt them I heard the anthem of the larks. 
Up in the clouds rose those morning heralds. 
And now L am near to my destined goal, 
The city of wisdom, art, and bright gold. 
The graat nave of our mundane universe. 
Whose spokes reach in the core of mankind's breasts. 

Looks out, at same time enters slowly, Simon Pure- 
simpleton, a young rustic, wearing a thiee-cornered hat. 
and a red kerchief around neck, carrying paraso' and 
a bunch of flowers. 

Gim.: What a fossi'lated specimen 'of humanity comes 
ere along ? 



20 (To Simon.) 

Halloa I stranger, also on the way to see the city ele- 
phant, and get civilized ? 

Sim.: Yes siree. yer riverence. I am going up to town, 
to the 4th of July celebration, and to see my gal. 

G.: Well, old friend shake an honest man's paws. I 
am on the same road : and am atflicted with the same 
disease : and you know in misery there is a fellow-feel- 
ing, which makes us wondrous kind. 

(Simon now in sportive manner touches him ,in the 
ribs, laughing.) 

S.: Ha-ha-ha me lad. going, going indeed, to get the 
cobwebs brushed from our noble brows by the city lassies. 
G.: That's it exactly ; but tell me confidentially, who 
is the lass who is going to do your brushing ? 

S.: Well, sorter boss, to tell you true. I have not yet 
seen my town masher. [Pulls out a letter.] 

G.: Not yet seen the female tyrant, who broke all the 
crystals of your stony male heart r 

S.: Well, not yet. boss, she did it by letter, and from 
them I think she takes the biscuit, as a she plum-pud- 
ding. 

G.: Well, that gal of your's is a stunner, and a big- 
ger load than I would like to carry. 
_ S.: But she is as sweet as a cart of watermelons. 
You see, boss, it came this wise ; one day I was reading 
a newspaper, when, under the head of matrimonial noti- 
ces, 1 saw a notice of a lady wishing to correspond with 
a gentleman of wealth and cCilture. 

G.: And you thought that you filled the bill ? 

Simon, (taking a proud posture.) 
I should say so. I should say so. 
G.: Good gracious ! 
S.: And thus we came to exchange epistles like this. 

and from sweet, it became sweeter, and 

G.: Oh ! I understand, 1 am familliar with the musi- 
cal-gamut of love. It became then sweetest of all, in 
fact so sweet, that it nearly burst your boiler, and lacer- 
ated your troubled heart. Thus, you come to see and 
conquer. 

S.: I should say so, 1 should say so : for lor! look at 
this musk scented letter I got yesterday, from her. 
wherein she invites me, as a sign by which she may 
know me. that at the waiving of her white handkerchief 
at the fete in the city : I should climb the liberty pole, 
wear a three cornered hat, and a red handkerchief: and 
thus win her heart. 

G.: In fact, lay her close to your palpitating heart, in 
your old farm house. 

Takes letter, walks oft" a little perusing it, while Simon 
feels his breast, and makes amrmative gestures. Gim- 
crack's face now changes to comic anger and astonish- 
ment, saying aside : 

G.: What ! the deuce I this very letter is written by 
my own sweetheart Agness Tomboy. Shall I be now 
crowned chuckold 'i Heart be still, heart be still. . 
(A pause, after which he appears again complacent.) 
Well, Gimcrack. don't make a fool of yourself; for 
your sweetheart wants simply to have a little fun With 
this rustic simpleton. As he has not seen her yet, there 
is no damage done. For I am familliar with every cubic 
inch of my Agness Tomboy. 

(Aloud — Returns letter.) 
Allow me to congratulate you. You have there secured 
a precious girl, her letter breaths sweetness, as far as 
pen and ink will permit. And I suppose you will climb 



the liberty pole, as a sign of recognition, and to [21 
gain that sweet morsel? 

S.: Sure boss, shure boss, and carry her home, and 
give her everyday six stout meals of pork, 'tatoes, and 
cabbage to make her fat ; and give her all the apple 
jack, and sweet cider she wants to drink. 

(Gives him jug, he drinks.) 
G.: Take a drop, take a drop, it jcooIs the nerves. 
Well, on such good luck, let's sing to our lassies. 

(Buttons on the High C.) 
Both : Then here is to our lassies bright, 
Sweet cider will not make them tight. 
G.: But pray you my dear, dear Simon, 
Think not so very much of hymen. 
For there's good many falls and slips, 
Between the cup and the long lips. 
Both : For there's good many falls and slips. 
Between the cup and the long lips. 
S.: My gal she is the fairest buttercup, 
Of all the lassies bright, she is the top. 
G.: Yes, take her home and show her your washtub. 
Where she can play piano to her Bob. 
Both : Yes, play with cows and dairy butter, 
Till her heart beats like birds who flutter. 
G.: Yes, Smion, love her to distraction. 
If you don't want of h-er a fraction. 
Both : Thus cherry let us ever, ever be, 
As long as we have cider from apple-tree. 
And then three cheers for our jolly maidens. 
For love they do, and sing in sweet cadence. 
As wives, they do— our shirts to wash and boil, 
Our clothes to mend, and in the kitchen toil. 
For we men are lords of creation. 
In war we do protect our nation. 
And three cheers more.for our mothers-in-law. 
They learn our wives to give us a big jaw. 
S.: Well, friend, 1 guess I will have to go, to be there m 
time to meet my lass. 
G.: Aye, start in time, for early birds, 
Always do catch of food two thirds. 
[Simon exit.] 
A bon voyage, a bon voyage. 
There goes the fool, of'modern age, 
But blow me if the gay fool's cap, 
I don't put on that greasy chap. 

I told you so, I told you so. 
And pray don't you forget it. 

Looks out at L. Astonished. Enter at L. slowly on 

crutches, Adam, (first parent) with long silver locks of 
hair, hanging down his shoulder. 

[Adam Redivivus.] 

{^im.: Who in the world is this human spectre? 

With shape of an Egyptian mummy ; 

Perchance he is of antediluvian age, 

I must sound him, I must sound him. 

Halloa ! halloa ! old man. whence comest thou ? 

Adam : Ask me from whence I come? 'tis not easy told, 

My life's journey has been long and weary. 

Its starting point dates back thousands of years, 

Ev''n from the dawn of this world's creation. 

Gimcrack lea'ds Adam to a bank of moss, and helps 

him to sit down. 

G.: Alas ! poor man my inner sight was right. 

Please take a seat on this green clod, 

Your limbs which have withstood the Vv-orm of time. 

Are now very fragile, brittle and tired. 



22 A.: Truly, 'tis true, my son, they are. they are. 

Only a wreck 1 am of my former self. 

Yet now and then, the electric fire of heav'n 

Gives them new life and spasmodic action. 

Our body may be strong, aye, as iron. 

Yet time, with its ke^ edged fell scythe. 

Will cut to tatters this fragile weak bark. 

The chilling winds of age will then blow out. 

The flickering lamp of mundane life. 

G.: 1 wean then that you are the first made man'. 

Of which the Bible speaks — Adam of our race. 

A,: I am, son, what I am, though true it is. 

I am the one of whom the Bible speaks. 

G.: Let me embrace thee sire, reverened sire. 

And tell me all about creation's morn. 

Of Eve, thy rib, and that forbidden tree. 

A.: If ignorance is bliss? 'tis folly to be wise. 

G.: Nay, good grand sire, the adage ought to run. 

If wisdom is bliss ? 'tis folly to be ignorant. 

For mankind has outlived its childhood stage. 

And needs now solid food instead of milk. 

A,: I see the world is onward progressing. 

But loth I am to be the stepping stone. 

The rock on which the billows of faith would wreck. 

G.: But sire our parching lips thirst for knowledge. 

Longing to drink from the pure stream of truth. 

Be not afraid to tell thy story true. 

We like to know if by heaven's decree, 

Your being was moulded out of earthly dust? 

And Eve, your wife, was taken from thy loins ? 

Or if ancient history is a myth ? 

Though it prove false, yet our finite weak mind, 

Is bound to worship one superior being, 

A ruler of this great universe. 

In whom our souls move and have their being. 

Mankind endowed with reason, likes to know 

More of this vast, this vast creation. 

[Pre-historic Splinters.] 
A.: As thou persists in urging me to tell. 
And as my memVy is well stocked with facts. 
Stored up through ages of my pilgrimage.t 
Know then, the mind dies not ; but lives e'er on, 
With all its faculties, and facts stored up. 
On its plastic walls hang many pictures. 
Which it at will into action calls. 
My stay with thee is only short, therefore, 
I can speak only of principal events : 
1 saw and heard since first creation's morn, 
Until about five hundred years ago, 
When by his wise decree I fell asleep. 
And slept till now, when I awoke. 
But the consequences be on thy head. 
G.: Pray thee, proceed, proceed, I'll bear them. 
A.: This universe was once a great chaos, 
Until, by an allwise decree — order. 
Was brought out discordant disorder. 
Globes form'd by centripetal forces. 
Thus was our earth created into being, 
After myriads of other fair worlds, . 
Had seen the light of day, had seen the light of day, 
Vegetation now into being sprang. 
Epochs passed on, and now with slow degrees. 
Animal life in lowest forms, 
Sprang forth from highest vegetable being. 
And thus the march of brute development began. 
When finally there came the primeval man ; 



As male and female germs are primal parts, 23 

Of this colossal grand creation. 

G.: Well sire, of mankind, for a long time past, 

I had a notion that such was the case, 

And now I'm glad to be confirmed. 

But how did the primeval man progress V 

A.: I have experienced all the changes. 

And will in a few short words relate to you : 

At our creations morn, I and my bonnie Eve, 

B6re more similitude to brute than man. 

We roved around the field like other beasts ; ^ 

We had no need of work to feed our body, 

As earth's fair brow, set for us anywhere. . • 

A bounteous table of richest viands. 

G.: But were they not cold, raw and unpalatable .-' 

A.: We ate things raw, though not less savory. 

Cooking is the enfeebling mode of this age. 

Engendering disease and human weakness. 

We. the primeval man, were enduring, 

We had good lungs, liv'd long, and were quite tough. 

Instinct our guide, with touch of dawning reason. 

Thus pass'd an epodh on, while our tissues. 

Fibres and bones, grew finer in texture. 

Immerg'd then into the pastoral age. 
Our mental faculties kept on growing. 

Reason increased, as did our numbers. 
We governed were first by patriarchs. 
Then judges wise ; then by the rod of kings. 

Whilst in our midst did rise prophets and seers. 

G.: Ha ! ha ! I heard of that succulent age. 

When patriarchs and kings had so many wives. 

A.: True son, our rulers then took many ribs. 

Scott free walk'd rape throughout the land, 

Our reason was then yet benighted. 

And brutal force swayed its potent sceptre. 

Then came the age of soldiery and classes, 

Caesars ruled with tyrannical sway ; 

Reason was then still in darkness clouded. 

Envy, jealously, and revenge, 

Held their carnival of destruction. 

Thousands were slaughtered in battle array. 

False prophets rose superstition to inflame. 

Then in Judea, arose a God inspir'd man, 

To ameliorate the evils of mankind. 

He to them spake in parables and figures, 

Best suited to the knowledge of his time. 

This benefactor and his followers. 

Donated to us the holy Bible. 

Time passed, religion worked mighty deeds, 

Until again a host of false prophets rose, 

Cloisters became the asylums for crime. 

And priestcraft ruled with nefarious sway. 

'Til Luther challenged open war to them. 

Just then by an allwise depree I fell asleep. 

An hour ago I heard the trumpet sound : 

Awake ! awake ! awake ! Adam awake ! 

1 rose, my voyage to renew. 

But pray, how is the world progressing now r 
[Progressive Persimmons.] 

G.: Thou wisht to know what the world has done since? 

You shall behold the city in its pride. 

Mankind is progressing onward still, 1 

Grand are the things we have accomplished. 

You'll see our coach, the airy ship pass by, 
Control we do the wind, ride on the tempest neck. 
Unveiled we have the vestibules of many worlds. 



24 Annalyzed and decomposed form and matter, 
Made each atom bring forth its hidden pow'r. 
Our intellect is now not more benighted. 
We act no more on faith ; but fact and^ reason. 

The whistle and rattling of a fire engine is heard with- 
out, Adam looks out. shows fright. 
A.: O, Son I what monster spitfire is that? 
Eschewing such hideous cries — comes it from hell? 
Or is he but a screeching dread dragon ? 
G.: Be not afraid, I see thy old limbs tremble. 
Such monsters as you name, travel no more, ' 

On earthVs fair brow amidst its hills and valleys; 
Excerpt as servile ministers to man. 

The whistling, rolling and puffing of a railroad engine 
and cars is heard without— both look out. 
G.: This is our agent steam — our coach on land. 
You see the good old time, when man travelled 
On foot, or on the elephant's broad back, 
Has pass'd away, now, ev'ry bog-trotter 
Rides like a lord, in a steam car. 
With swiftest speed, crossing o'er hill and plain : 
Against which the gait of the fastest steed. 
Is but the crawling of the snake. 

Looks out again, while a blaze of fire appears at R. 
out of sight, but its light is visible. Adam becomes ex- 
cited, hops around. 

A.: Behold the raging fire— sure flames of hell. 
G.: Nay sire, be not afraid, some careless Bridget, 
Oflarder fame, has left ungarded her cook-stove ; 
But it will be extinguished in no time. 

Rattling and whistling of fire engines is heard outside 
where light comes from, some firemen are also seen run- 
ning across the stage towards the fire. 
G.: This machine you see there, is a fire engine. 
Constructed by speculative bold men. 
Sire, you see we're familliar with fire, 
Which in your time, was thought an element of hell. 
We harnessed it, to serve the con-jfort of mankind. 
[Noise of engine ceases, and blaze dies away.] 
Nay. what is more we now control Jove's thunder, 
The lightning's streak flashing athwart the sky, 
They all now yield obeisance to our will. 
A.: 'Tis marvelous : men are becoming gods. 
G.: Why, good sire, we have astronomers, 
Who measure the circumference of the heavens, 
Know their distance, motion, hour and minute, 
When sun, moon and stars will pass a certain point. 
Through their telescopes, they gaze into 
Boundless space, examine and view there. 
Inhabitants of divers distant globes. 
We now do use telegraph wires. 
Which with lightning's quickness, set us in rapport 
With our brother man, on earth's farthest bounds. 
Man is no more Egyptian. Jew, Arab, 
Roman or Greek — but cosmopolitan. 
Yet. more than all. our thoughts are now. 
Transmitted through the air and endless space. 
Now, man communes with his fellow man, 
Oler ocean wide, by sympathetic light of psyche : 
And continents are joined by the bridge of love, 
Along which speeds the soul's electric spark. 
Thus when the batt'ry of two souls is closed. 
They comprehend each other's thoughts. 
And feel the beating of their heart's as one. 
Though bodily ten thousand miles apart. 

[Adam hobbles around uneasy.] 



A.: 1 am afraid I am not for your times, 25 

Oh ! oh ! give me the good old time again. 

G.: Yet patient be good sire, we do still more, 

We now commune with our dead friends, 

And with the world's great creator direct. 

We need no more, the intervention, 

Of prophets, seers, necromancers. 

Charlatans, mediums and humbugs. 

No more mediators, or vicarious atonement, 

Eorged is the soul's chain, joining us to God. 

No more sacrifices, and sacerdotal robes, 

Our hearty en rapport beat with the creator. 

At first we were only animal-men, 

Then we became contemplative beings. 

Of late we have advanced into the spirit realm. 

With thoughts sublime, and heavenly desires. 

Now reigns supreme perfect freedom. 

And swords are made into plow-shares. 

[Music heard in the distance and shouts of jqy.] 
A.: But hark ! What's that ? Celestial music ! 
1 hear a choir of angels sing. 

G.: "^s, sire, angels, but without wings. They are cel- 
ebrating the 4th of July — the anniversary of the estab- 
lishment of liberty. The city is hard by here, and soon 
you will see them. But what has brought you in this 
grove ? 

A.: I pray you tell me the name of this grove? 

G.: I believe they call it Edgewood. 

A.: Just before I awoke I dreamt that in Edgewood 
Grove, Eve, my partner, slept. 

G.: What! your whilom Eve buried here? 

A.: So the oracle said into my ear — and that if I 
would be at this hour here she would awake by my magic 
touch, and with me walk along to see the world's pro- 
gress. 

G.: Things begin to look strange. Here to restore 
to life the mother of mankind. However, Pm always 
ready to help a man to a wife. 

[Searching, finds pick in weeds.] 

So here we go for business first, and afterward for 
pleasure. 

[Searching around grove.] 

If anywhere she is, she must repose in this bank of 
moss. 

[Commences to use pick at bank.] 

G.: Going, going — not a kingdom for a horse, but a 
kingdom for a wife. 

After working a little with pick, Adam putting rub- 
bish away, pick strikes on metal. 

G.: Here we got the old girl. Old man brace up — 
brace up. 

He now pulls out a metalic coffin, looking rusty out- 
side. Adam shouts for joy and faints. 

G.: Brace up, brace up, old man. Married folks 
need strong joints and stiff upper lips. 

Adam recovers and both pry open the lid. Adam 
shouts again and bends over coffin. 

G.: Here we got her, as fresh as a daisy. I told you 
so, I told you so. 

Gimcrack commences to rub her now all over. They 
lay her first' on bank. She appears with flowing long 
white hair and oriental dress. Adam holds bottle to her 
nose. 

G.: I'm afraid we will have hard work to resuscitate 
her, as she appears to be rather tough. But still my 
magnetism will bring her to. if there is yet a spark o 



26 life. That's right old fell, give her the bottle — it 
either cures or kills. 

He now takes an instrument from pocket, looking like 
a toy battery and holds it to her feet. 

G.: I'm lucky that I took this morning this galvanic 
battery along — to prevent the lightning striking me. 
Now I'll give her a dose of it. This will fetch her. 

After awhile Eve commences to show life ; twitches, 
sneezes and draws up her limbs. They help her up now. 

G.: Brace up ; brace up, old woman. Your Adam 
has not yet passed in his check. 

They get her now on feet. She becomes more viva- 
cious. They recognize each other, and Adam and Eve 
embrace, amid exclamations of joy. Gimcrack stands 
apart. 

G.: 1 told you so, I told you so^there is always a 
woman in the case. 

[To them.] 

Hymenial occasions are always graced with a song — 
particularly a wooden,, silver, golden, centennial or a 
millennial wedding like this. ♦ 

[Again the Cat.] 

[They sing now — join hands — Eve in the middle.] 
A.: I have this wife the joy of my new life. 
,G.: She's his wife — the joy of his new life. 
Eve: Good friends, what is this all about ? 
I heard the trumpet sound so loud. 
What am I and how came 1 here? 
Why sleeping in this rusty bier? 
A.: Your husband I. came to relieve you 
To pass with me a new life through. 
G.: To bring you out I hove the pick, 
My batt'ry made your heart tick, tick, ' 

I told you so, I told you so, 
And pray don't you forget it. 
E.: It is then true, that "neath this coffin lid. 
I slept thousands of years, alone, amid 
The shrubs and ferns and reeds of this lone grove. 
Till my old stick came here along to rove. 
A.: Yes, Eve, my rib, 1 came, with thee to sprout, 
Along life's path to cheer thee up aloud. 
A new life's lease we got from him on high, 
Therefore, let's praise give him up in the sky. 
Chorus: Thus sweet ought matrimony be. 

Yes, bonnie wives and husbands true: 
Be always cheerful and on the high C. 

This only — only this — you will not rue. 

Cannon shot heard in th-e distance and music out of 
view playing star spangled banner, (ximcrack pulling 
them along, saying : 

G.: Well, my ancient friends, 'tis time, the signal of 
the fete has just been given. If you want to see the 
new world on a 4th of July, you better come along. 

[At wing — aside.] 
And I have to hurry up to put the fool's cap on that oth- 
er chap — else he might chuckold me. [Exeunt.] 

Scene 2 finds us in the metropolis, which is dressed in 
its Sunday clothes and in gala appearance, with floating 
banners and buntings from every window and house-top, 
while its park in the middle, with its green sod, its flow- 
ers and shrubs, its playing water fountains, its prome- 
nades and its liberty pole, with the eagle and the flag of 
freedom on its pinnacle, presents an attractive view. On 
looking around the city we find its modern improvements, 
its stores and workshops. Here we find the result of ge- 
nius, the travelling by balcKjn and steam car. Yonder 



we behold the observatory, with its telescope, showing [27 
us distant planets. Turning again we find the fire-engine 
to keep the demon fire in check. We ambulate around 
and we see hundreds of new inventions of equal impor- 
tance. Finally we see entering a multitude of people 
enjoying themselves in singing and dancing. A band 
discourses patriotic and enchanting airs. First we meet 
Miss Tomboy, the despoiler of the peace of our two 
friends, Gimcrack and Puresimpleton, whom we met be- 
fore. She is found rocking herself in a swing, convers- 
ing with a lady friend. 

L,: And you say your country Adonis will be here to- 
day, at our 4th of July celebration? 

[Tomboy gets out swing and they come front.] 
Tom.: Aye, Miss ! Philosophy Gimcrack will come, 
you bet. And 1 shouldn't wonder if not also another 
country pumpkin will be here to smole on me. 
[Shakes finger at her.) 

L.: You are doing then a heavy business in swains. 
But beware that you don't get caught. 

T.: The more the merrier. You see Gimcrack is such 
a deuce of a rake, so I thought to make him a little jeal- 
ous by corresponding with another saphead, who will 
climb for me the liijerty pole as a sign of recognition, 
wearing a red kerchief. So look out for fun. 

L.: You are a mischief-maker— a thorn which pricks 
the soft spot of the lads. 

T.: Aye ! I prick them to the quick, to get all the 
fun out of them. But on such good luck let's sing our 
new song. 

(The Maiden's Trust.) 
Both: We'll have some fun— we make them run, 
To buy us ice-cream by the ton. 
And make them swear they will us pair. 
Or else die lonely in despair. 
T.: But let them rave and their hearts heave, 
I do not care a straw for grief. 
To-morrow they will 'gain play mis<^hief, 
And break their oaths of straw like thieves. 
Both: To-morrow they will 'gain play mischief. 

And break their oaths to us like thieves. 
T.: So better we do keep quite cool. 

And let them not of us make fools ; 
IiT agitation keep their hearts. 
For this brings out their nobler parts. 
L.: But oh ! don't you pull cupid's string, 
It will make your female heart ring. 
Thus many times, I tried it often. 
Till my poor heart began to soften. 
T.: Now pray don't you get pathetic, 
I am no male athletic. 
My heart is not made of cold stone. 
But burns like fire, right to the core. 
Both: The lads they love us maidens well, 
Oft do they us their passions tell. 
What havoc our blue eyes have made. 
Their hearts to splinters turned quite mad. 
But trust them not, but trust them not, 
We maidens trust them not — we trust them not. 
We fold you so, we told you so. 
And pray don't you forget it. 

Orchestra now plays a patriotic air, while enter a lot 
of girls in white dresses, with garlands of flowers around 
their heads, followed by a crowd of men carrying ban- 
ners and by the music band playing. The girls link 



28 hands and make some evolutions around park while 
singing. 

[The Day of Jubilee.] 
Chorus : Oh. goddess of liberty-. 

We are happy and free : 

And may this freedom's tree. 

Remind us of -sweet liberty; 

Sweet liberty — sweet libeny. 

We will sing glor>- to thee. 

Let all nations gladly bow. 

Betore thy exalted throne : 

No care sits now on our brow : 

Happy .and free we live now. 

Therefore, all praise to thee. 

Goddess of liberty — goddess of liberty. 
Pyrotechnics are now displayed and the band plays 
dance music, and they all dance while enter at R. wing. 
Simon Puresimpleton in fonner dress, while Miss Tom- 
boy (not dancing) waves a white handkerchief, and Si- 
mon at once rushes to pole and climbs up. After which 
enters Gimcrack with Adam and Eve. He has a fools- 
cap with bells in hand. He laughs and rushes up to pole, 
tjnng cap to string fastened to pole and pulls cap up. 
Gim.: I told you so. I told you so, 

That I would handicap him so. 
And pray don't you forget it. 
That it was me who did it. 
While Adam and Eve look astonished around, finally 
they also dance. After a few turns Adam throws crutches 
away and dances lively with Eve. After Simon has 
reached top. he swings his hat. Foolscap has then also 
arrived. Hat falls and he puts cap on. while Gimcrack 
rushes up to Miss Tomboy. They embrace. Simon 
shakes nst at them angrily, while thev make gestures of 
derision, as the curtain drops. 

The End. 



OUR DOUGHTY CANTINIERS. 





OR 



COURTING THE WRONG LASS. 



A LIBRETTO FOR A COMIC OPERETTA. 



IN II ACTS. 
{Only One Stage Setting.) 



30 CAST OF PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 

' ?TlCHAEL Hayseed. - - - - Our German Cousin. 

Ben. and Tom., His male scions. 

Barney O'Keef. A rustic old Irish gintleman of the 

rale oultl stock. 
Patrick, ------ One of his grown up cubs. 

Major Tick, ------ A shaver on principles. 

Bob Codfish, - . . - Succulent with ihe Lassies. 
Primrose, - - The dark horse in the Lover's Game. 
Mrs. O'Keef, - Crossing the domestic rubico^;i with a 
broomstick. 

.A.UNTIE Peg, A livelj' girl for her age. 

^L^rguerite) t^, .,,-,... , . . , 

\nd ^ "^ Cantmiers. playmg it deuced 

Catharine. S ^^arp on the boys. , 



ACT L 

Scene : .A. military Fort among the Indians of the 
western frontier of the United States. Time — Day. 

Before the curtain rises, the clack of hatcheling is 
heard, and when it rises it reveals a jyirty of country 
women, engaged in hatcheling. They sing : 

[The Hatchling Bee.] 
Chorus : Crack, crack, crack, whack, whack, whack. 

We work with our hatchels. 
Peg : Prepare the hemp for shirts and for yankee satchels. 
To get new clothes and throw away our old patches. 
And furnish hempen, flaxen, bright color'd dresses 
For rustic lads, our boys in blue and our lassies : 
So that they charm our love lorn youths of sailor's hatches 
Unite these ardent mokes, they make explosive matches. 
In this fair land, we love a rumpus and a racket. 
Relish to rove on foot, or rail, or steamboat packet, 
And all the yankee chaps of this happy fast free land 
Ambition mad. hanker to be its president. 
Chorus : Crack, crack, crack, whack, whack, whack. 

There go again our hatchels. 
Peg : In western life we have no strife. 
Good will and peace by us are rife. 
Turnips our food, on cabbage we do thrive. 
Roast beef and pork, we eat with fork and knife. 
In homely garb we roam about. 
In politics we are quite loud. 
Thus ever be our yankee land of freedom. 
Free thought and press, not tied by creeds or serfdom. 
Chorus: Crack, crack, crack, whack, whack, whark. 
We work with our hatchels. 

Bonnie Kate, a branch of the O'Keefs tree, and 
Marguerite a twig of our Dutch landsman, Hayseed, 
have a little innocent fun with their fervent adorers, Ben 
and Bob, but the girls "'on't spark, not a nickle's worth, 
only for pastime, sai (generis — cu/n ^rafio salis. A 
hatcheling bee is in progress when our valiant Bob en- 
ters backward from the kitchen of the O'Keefs, pur- 
sued by Mrs. O'Keef and- a broomstick. The old lady 
looks rather lynx-eyed at the adorer of her daughter 
Kitty, as his memory is rather weak as fo the payment 
of his weekly hash-bill. After they have sutftciently 
cooled off, they express their too, too acute "feelins" in 
the following song : 

[Cupid's Foibles.] 
Mrs. O'K.: You rascal will get married. 

But ni take care you shan't. 
Bob : But Mistress Keef, be not so deaf 
You see a lover's bleeding reef. 



Chorus : Yes, be not deaf, to his rib and reef, 31 

His loving heart, comes else to grief. 
O'K.: You silly rooster stop to crow, 
Chorus : Kickerikue, kickerikue, kickerikue. 
0'I<^.: This broomstick I'll on you bestow. 
Pay your hash bill, it is antique, 
Before you get so romantic. 
Bob : Dilly-dally, woman's tackle, 

Will this grey hen cease to cackle ? 
•Chorus : Kluck, kluck, kluck, kluck, kluck or cackle, 

Let this grey hen kluck or cackle, 
Bob : I'll splice this lass ; you go to grass. 

Don't give me more your apple "sass." 
Chorus : O yes, let him have his gay lass. 
He has concealed away some cash. 
Mrs. O'K. & Bob : Springtime is for spawning, 
And proud lads go mooning. 
On hill or valley. 
Youths love to dally. 
Chorus : O yes, let him have his pert lass, 
He has concealed away some cash. 
[Bob going out says:] 
Bob : I'll be revenged on your sex— I'll be revenged, 
I will get married. 

Among the women hatcheling is one Peg (not a bush- 
el) who has a husband cognomened Major Tick, The 
latter's profession is borrowing, keep shady under the 
barrel, and at sober times wink at the "widders." He now 
enters, and Peg, for sheer joy, kicks with her dainty boot 
(only number tens) her lord's hat off, revealing a bald— 
a very bald upper story. They make, then, the air reso- 
nant with the following vocal ebullition : 
[A Matrimonial Fusillade.] 
T.: A jollier wife I ne'er had in my life. 
Chor.: A jollier wife he ne'er had in his life, 

A jolly old and buxom wife. 
T. & P.: Though old in years— we banish tears 

Love probed by age— gives us good cheers. 
T.: Though oft you're cross, you old puss cat 
Chor.: Miew— miew — miew. 

T.: Then in the house, I play the rat, 

Broomhandles fly, sauce pans and shears. 
With which you often pinch my ears. 
Peg.: These are earmarks, you old gray sinner, 
By which love comes ahead the winner. 
Fpr oftentimes you take a cocktail horn, 
I As if lord of creation you were born. 
T. & P.: Though old in years— we banish tears. 

Love probed by .age— gives us good cheers. 
Marguerite, the merry German maiden has now a cus- 
tomer on the barber''s stool, and in view of the fact that 
a dime is in sight, she lets her soul fly, and warbles the 
following lines : 

[The Merry Tonsorial Maid.] 
Mar.: I am a jolly barber's maid. 

On all young fellows make a raid. 
• I scoff at city's belles so staid. 
No health to make their souls elate. 
Chorus : The jolly barber's maid 

Makes on young lads a raid. 
Mar.: Tcan cook a square meal, 
And am the razor's bee. 
I take no taffy and gum drops. 
And box the laddie as he pops. 
Chorus : She is the jolly barber's maid, 

For all young lads a we'lcome bait. 



32] Mar.: Like mountain birds, we live jolly and free, 

And once a while we have a hatcheling bee. 

When homespun dresses are made for the lassies 

And hemp prepared for the boy's cuirasses. 
Chorus: She is a jolly barber's maid. 

For all young l:\ds a welcome bait. 
Old Hayseed exits into house. She now shaves cus- 
tomer. 

Our friend, Major Tick, having in the meantime bor- 
rowed money enough to water his salivatory glands, be- 
comes now rather too familiar with the bifurcated dam- 
sels, that is too much for his honest Peg, and after she 
has hauled him oft" by the ear and brought him near to 
her palpitating heart, they sound Orpheus ' lyre with 
such paroxismal sweetness that the old master himself 
would have listened : 

[An Old Duffer's Menu.] 
Tick : And that's the "raeson," 
In springtime ''saeson.'' 
An old cock in the dark, 
Loves to go on a lark. 
Peg : Kickerikue, kickerikue. 
Chorus : Yea, loves to go on a jolly lark. 
He loves a lass, and a horn in th' dark. 
Tick : Yes, plenty cash and old age. 
Is with the widows all the rage. 
To live and love till good old age, 
Converts the sinner to a sage. 
Chorus : Yes, loves to go on a jolly lark, 
He loves a lass and a horn in th' dark. 
Peg : My jolly, jolly, old gray duffer. 
What care you though my feelings suffer. 
Tick : Xo, dear Peg, never let your soul boil over. 
If your old Tick plays to the girls the lover. 
Peg : Take care, take care, don't you get up my dander, 
I quarter else you masculine oftender. 
Chorus : Beware, beware, she'll fty unto your gable. 
Subdue a woman's fury you're not' able. 

Bob and some carpenters having a job in the fort en- 
ter now, and Tick takes the opportunity to chaff Bob 
about Kitty, his flame. Finally, they give vent to their 
feelings in song. 

[The Jolly Coterie of Blade Artists.] 
Tick: Ye carpenters and journeymen. 

Stand in a line and show your plane. 

Break not with axe or sharp bucksaws. 

The ladies' hearts and cupids' laws 

Shave, brothers, shave with care, 
fcave smooth with care the fair, 
ou old sinner, go to dinner, 

You are not a ladies' killer. 

Yet still you are drum major Tick, 

With little brains, my dear old Nick. 
Chorus: Shave, brothers, shave with care. 

Boards and plank.smooth as hair. 
Kate: You men follow my example. 

And le^t these sweet ladies amble. 

I take no stock in man's parole. 

And need no masculine patrol. 
Chorus: Shave, brothers, shave with care. 

Boards and planks smooth as hair. 

Old Hayseed rushes now from his booth, having dis- 
covered a leak in his beer barrels, requesting the car- 
penters to stop it. They cheerfully consent to discharge 
this^ one of their putriotic duties, and amid the clack of 



their mallets and beering their inner man, they stop [33 
he leaks while singing a cantata : 

[T\\e Jolly Coterie of Blade Artists.] 
With cbissels and saws, 
We dovetail the flaws. 
And glue them tight across, 
Aft symetrical laws. 
With cleaver and lever, 
And planer we bevel, 
Our work O. K. and right. 
And at evening tide. 
We leave labor's delight. 
And sing to lassies bright, 
Or stroll with them at night. 
Beneath the moon's pale light. 
Clack, clack, clack, goes our hammer, 
Onward we go forever. 
With hearts rejoicing loud, 
And sweat on our fair brows. 
We hoist people's comfort, • 

To gain their round applause. 
Despise not then the noble mechanic. 
He is the nation's great protoplastic. 
And then three cheers for our beery host. 
In hops and malt his noble self is lost. 
Thus beef and beer which give us vital strength. 
We always welcome if within arm's length. 
Then three more rousing cheers for malt and hops. 
The lassies and our German merry host. 
Clack, clack, clack, goes our hammer, 
Onward we go forever. 
These jolly patriots of the plane having now gone, and 
our Bob is left alone on the stage exercising his amatory 
emotions with a pl^ne, when the melody of the merry 
German maiden — his other flame— strikes his unsophis- 
ticated long ears. He hears, but sees her not. 
[The Hidden Treasure.] 
I. I'm Mag with the auburn tresses, 
And I own queenly eye-lashes. 
With eyes that shed soft radiant light. 
Or flash with scorn, like meteors bright. 
Love buoys our souls, o'er life's troubled sea. 
As all men love a bright skipping she. 
n. Yet girls beware, treat all the boys with care. 
For cupid is a dangerous rough bear. 
In rosy scarlet robes he pries about. 
And utters fervent prayers to us aloud. 
But offer him a sip, he wants the whole lip, 
Not satisfied with th' tip, he hugs the whole rib. 
Marguerite, the jolly German maiden, having now 
presumably descended from the hay loft, where erst- 
while she bad been chanting, appears now on the scene, 
and finally yields to the urgent request of our Bob to 
open the stopcock of her musical valve and sing for him 
a song, which she does, and over which Bob feels his 
manly pride to mount his cheek, as a triumph of mind 
over matter. [The Triumph of Mind o'er Matter.] 
Marg.: Codfish, Bob Codfish, Bob Codfish, 
I like to marry whom I wish ; 
As fas-t departed is one lover. 
When quickly ogling me another. 
Chorus : Killamey lads, O, punch with care. 

The lassies at Donnie Brook fkir. 
Marg.: I shave the lads quite clean and square. 
That their appearance may be fair. 
But for myself, I love no lad 



34J Who has no hair on lip or head; 

Chorus : KilLiiney. lads. O. punch with care. 
The lassies at Donnie Brook fair. 
Bob : Bless the ladies, bless the ladies. « 
For like faries. and like babies. 
Spooking, roaming in this gay world around. 
To the music of love's sweet <^ulcet sound. 
Chorus : Sisters, sisters, sharpen your keen scissors. 
To shave with care all coy male visitors. 
This little diversion of the jolly German mai4en. has 
been watched by Master Primrose, an accepted adorer 
of hers ; whom she thought absent on a journey abroad, 
but who had kept his weather-eye peeled, and determined 
to watch his charmer, a little incognito. Under these 
trj-ing circumstances, he sets his teeth tirmly. and re- 
solves to watch the seemingly clandestme intended meet- 
ing of his dulcina. and that treacherous Bob. at ten P. M. 
that ver}- night. The hatcheling party goes now to lunch, 
leaving our sedate friend Primrose, and Pat, his chum, 
on tl^e scene. The latter consoles him, and thusly they 
sing. Pat holds up a glass with beer. 
[A Specific] 
Pat: Do not mind it my dear Primrose. 
In this alone we find repose. 
Prim.: In future I'll believe you Pat. 

I'll stick to beer it makes us fat. 
But then that girl, it makes me swear. 
I thought she was so true and fair. 
Pat : Believe them not. believe them not. 

They're always true till they are caught. 
Prim.: 1 did not think, she would coquet ^ 

With this cross-eyed carpenter's rat. 
Pat : God bless your soul, they all do it. 
If they can get a buxom fit. 
So calm yourself, so calm yourself. 
Your pert lass is a fickle elf. 
Both : Let's follow suit, in that same groove. 
All men and women onVard move. 
They exeunt now. and after a little while enters on the 
scene, our German citizen. Hayseed, smoking out of a 
•• I'aterland" pipe, the smoke of which so elevates his 
soul that it bubbles forth in a German song : 
[Xicotin;t.] 
Wenn mein Pfeifchen dampft und gliihet. 
Und der Ranch mir um die Nase ziehet. 
Dann schwingt mein Geist sich auf zum Rand. 
Da, wo ist das gelobte Land. 
Chorus : Eine Pfeife voll Taback 

Ist der Cjotter rein Geschmack! 
A new victim lor Marguerite's razor comes upon the 
scene, and lull of elation at the prospect of another 
dime, they sing the following lines : 

[The Grin Fantasia.] 
>lar.: I. Gretchen and my nightingale. 
Were riding on a railroad train. 
And all the boys within the car. 
Where smoling at me from afar. 
Chorus : Then let them smole from points afar. 
While riding in a railroad car. 
Mar.: The chap beside me smoled so hard. 
So that I thought he were all hearL 
He cocked his eyes, his ears grew long. 
His hair erect, his nose astride. 
His pulse beat fast, his face got red. 
His teeth shone forth, as like a gong. 
His mouth expanded a yard wide. 



While humming wistfully ding-dong. 35 

Chorus:' Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong. 
Sing to the merry maid a dingle-dong. 
Mar.: 1 left the car for him to cheese it, 

I would not stand such tough chin music. 
Chorus: Then let him smole from points afar. 
While riding on a railroad car. 
Hayseed sings solo : a thrill aS "trio trial,*' etc., as is 
customary in Germany. 

'After awhile the hatcheling party returns from lunch, 
and our Irish and Geiman fossils, after lubricating their 
throats with the customary beverages of their respec- 
tive countries, entertain very kindly feelings for each 
other, and are rather desirous that their progeny should 
"pair," and at last they give vent to their emotions in 
patriotic songs : 

[Sonata Amor Patriae.] 
O'Keef : On Erin's dells and hills, 

There live the Mac's and O's, 
Land of clear streams and rills, 
Of Shamrock's and Primroses. 
My home 'where grow the poses. 
Chorus: Let's take a rest, enjoy the muse, 

And strike a match, or light a fuse. 
O'Keef: The Mac's and O's for freedom rose. 
A gallant race — heroic brave sons. 
And they may yet — the future knows, 
Free themselves from shackles base. 
Chorus: Let's take a rest, enjoy the muse, « 

And strike a match, or light a fuse. 
Hay.: Am Rhein, am Rhein, am lieben Rhein, 

Da wachsed, da wachsed, der Goetter Wein, 
Belebt den Youngen mit frohen Muth, 
Und kommt dem Alter auch zu Gut. 
f horus: Let's take a rest, enjoy the muse, 
And strike a match, or light a fuse. 
ACT 11. 
The second act brings us into the shades of evening, 
under the ambient light of a silvery moon. Marguerite 
and Kate have come out of their respective homes to 
have a little sport with their admirers. Bob and Ben. 
while the governors' boots rest under the bed, and the 
old women's heads are under the sheets. They concoct 
a little scheme of deception, and then sing, in subdued 
voices : [Shrimps for Two.] 

Kate : We are gay deceivers. 
On the road to teasers. 
In these mountain ranges. 
Hornpipe dance the sages. 
Chorus: Irish and dutch — Irish and dutch. 

Happy in each other's warm touch. 
Kate : We love to roam this world about, 

And meet glad hearts from north to south ; 
And then turn sail, from east to west. 
Till we liave caught him in our nest. 
Chorus : Irish and dutch — Irish and dutch, 

Happy in each other's warm touch. 
Mar.: We chirp and carrol, like birds you know. 
O'er heather we skip, 'neath trees lay prone, 
'Till eve.,-ma says : "'birdie, come home.'' 
Then hie to bed and sleep alone. 
Chorus: Irish and dutch — Irish and dutch, 

Happy — happy as their hands touch. 
Mar.: Indian squaws, have big jaws. 
And proud lads with buck saws, 
Toy — softly with our hearts. 



36 Sirloin steak full of warts. 
Chorus: Irish and dutch — Irish and dutch. 
Happy — happy as their hands touch. 
Thus having finished, the lively girls agree on a little 
game of deception, to lead their festive adorers astray, 
should they yet show up that night in search of a green 
spot. The agreement is : that each is to counterfeit the 
other, when the lovers come. Then they retire. After 
a while, sure enough Bob descends from his cove to sow 
his wild oats, and ad interim do a little cooing wit^ one 
of his turtle doves, while the other is presumably safely 
locked in Morpheus' arms. He goes in front" of her 
chamber, softly trilling his heartfelt pangs. 

[Waiting for the Verdict.] 
Bob: 1 am a gay young mountaineer. 
And daily drink ten quarts of beer. 
My rustic home, I love dear — dear. 
When love shall cease this breast to stir. 
Amid the grass and trees I make my bier. 
But now love's spirit sways me here, [points to breast.] 
Therefore I ramble now to find my dear. 
If she will come and press my heart right here. 

Bob facing Marguerite's window, falls on one knee and 
sings on. 

Bob: Sweet lady of the lane, hear my prayer. 
Rise from thy slumber and come near, 
For I, thy lover true, is here. 
Who has come to give you good cheer. 
The nig|;its are long, and days are short. 
So let me see you by love's torch. 

The apparent Marguerite, his dulcina now appears at 
the window, at first she hesitates a little, but finally per- 
mits him to enter. They sing : 

[The Lover's Peccadillos.] 
Kate : By jove, I had to scratch my knee, ' , 

What ominous matter can it be? 
I'ze heard some "shentle" tapping, 
While half way. 1 was napping. 
Re-€nter Bob with ladder, puts it at her window and 
mounts up. 
Bob : 'Tis me, my own sweet love. 

Me — me — -my gentle dove. 
Kate : O, mine Bob, is "dat" you, 

Did you come here to miew ? 
Bob : Now maiden fair. I pray forbear. 
When in your arms I feel no care. 
Kate : Will you not deceive me ? 
Bob : Never, never— never ! 
Kate : Did you say no — never. 
Or is this but lather? 
They disappear. After awhile alights our Ben to meet 
the appointment of his guileless girl. He also kneels, 
and in brief but eloquent soul-felt, vibrating, vocal mu- 
sic sends forth his plaint on the vesper air, which still- 
ness is only broken now and then by a score or so of cat- 
calls, by felines on a similar mission bent. * 
[A Hydrocephalic Green Spot.] 
B.: O, she has such a pretty foot. 
With tassels on her dainty boot. 
I love so dear her banged up hair. 
And snow white skirts, which make her fair. 
And then she is so sweet and airy, \ r)gpg„. 
The pretty flower of the prairie. \ " 
[Falls on one knee facing her chamber and sings on.] 
Yes, love me Lass^J^^arvqiisis. 
In this mund3hl>77#*^4ftlerness. 

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Let hymen's torch burn high and bright, ^7 

Though life is dark and naught is right. 
Let's board this barge like Noah's ark, 
.Then we need'nt fear the world's rough bark. 
The pseudo Kate appears now with lighted candle at 
window of O'Keef s similar located as at Hayseed's. 

[An Aching Feline Duettino.] 
Ben : Kittie, me pretty darling, • 
Kept time on forwarning. 
"Marguerite opens window, looks out, cat miews behind 
scene ; sings— her manner shows surprise. 
M.: Great Caesar, have we any rats ? 
I heard a voice, was it the cat ? 
Good gracious me, what can it be, 
I hope 'tis not a caterwauling bee. 
B.; Ma Colleen Bawn, 

'Tis me — 'tis me. 
M.: You "foin'' rascal. Ben, 

Musha go home, 'tis ten, 
B.: 1 won't be cheated out my fun. 

Through fire and water 1 will run. 
M.: But you cann6t get up here. 

As I'm in the second tier. 
B.: I will get up Kattie, darlint. 

For love has wings to fly up with. 
[He mounts ladder, while cat miews again.] 
M.: But hush— what's that? 
B.: 'Tis nothing but the cat, 

After a mouse or rat. 
The youngsters have, however, mistaken their calcula- 
tion, as the old folks have slept with their weather-eye 
open, and have discovered the Jack in the game. They 
administer now an ample dose of the cat-o-nine-tail all 
around, when a general explanation ensues, showing that 
as yet no serious harm has been done, after which they 
wind up with a song. 

[The Lie Circumstantial.] 
K.: You dear old folks we did no harm 
There is no cause for wild alarm. 
K. and M.: We are gay deceivers 
Not in love believers. 
K. We put a job on these young fellows 
So that they coo no more so zealous. 
K. and M.: We are gay deceivers, 
Not in love believers. 
Mar.: We had some fun, we made them run 
For their dear lives to save a bunn. 
Thus we treat each naughty Shaughraun. 
Or fry them like flap-jacks dark brown. 
Chorus: Then happy be the bridegroom. 

To have such bride to wash his spoon. 
O'K.: And did you not philopcena noses? 
K. & M.: No — never — roses. 
O'K.: What ! Never stuck your bills in eau de roses' 
H.: Yas, did ye ever bevel noses? 
K.&M.: Bevel? Never in such doses, [gal's lips never ? 
H.: You poys you says: your lips touched these 
Ben and Bob. [Both count at fingers.] 

If we ever — once — twice — three times treble. 
^ K.: Well. /lo harm done — then let's go to roost. 
Chorus: O yes, we go to roost. 

And all hands take a snooze. 
They are about to retire when forth rushes from his 
hiding place our friend Primrose, who has silently been 
watching the fun of the lassies. He is rather down 
hearted at the waywardness of his lass, but finally agree 



38] to take her back to his bosom. They express their 
feelings in song : 

[Cupid's Picket Skirmish.] 
Prim.: This naughty lass — this naughty lass. 

For all I care she can eat grass. 

1 loved her mad, ev'n to distraction. 

Until my heart was but a fraction. 
Chor.: He loved her madly to distraction, 

Till of his heart she had a fraction. 
Prim.: But Marguerite, you cruel lass. , 

You broke my heart into a mesh. 
Mar.: Primrose, don't put on so dreadful 

To-night you look so dire hateful. 

Nothing is lost, you are still boss. 

So shake, and let us not be cross. 

I thought abroad you were vegetating, 

So with the boys at home I was legislating. 
Prim.: 1 will not shake with you to-night ; 

"Tween us, I think it is not right. 
Chor.: He will not shake hands with his lass ; 

He is afraid she might give him the pass. 
Mar.: Give your hand, dear Primrose, to me ; 

To-night we'll have the marriage-bee. 
Prim.: No, lassie, no, it cannot be so. 

Sporting you were with other lads, oh I oh I 
Mar.: Dear Primrose, now if you don't stop, 

My eyes will cry and heart will dap. 
Prim.: It is then true, that in your heart I sit. 

And Cupid's flame is still for me there lit. 

Then come and rest on this bosom true, * 

You never will this action rue. 
[They now embrace.] 
Chor.: The maiden rests on his bosom true ; 

That is what all the maiden's do. 
[They now exeunt.] 
After all have now peacefully retired, enter upon the scene 
the Indian warrior, thirsting for the gore ot Uncle Sam's 
boys in the fort. A short engagement ensues, but it is 
stopped in time by the arrival of the peace commission- 
ers from Washington, with orders from Uncle Sam that 
the Indians recieve in lieu of their native heath some 
bread, ham and worn-out army blankets, with a good 
deal of whisky. Some of the articles are brought in im- 
mediately to satisfy the voracious maws of the red devils. 
Our Celtic and Teutonic families, of the Sutler's persua- 
sion having been aroused again by the tumult of war, 
appear now below en dishabille: but peace reigns again, 
as poor Lo sports in one hand a piece of bread and in 
the other a ham, while an open thimbleful ot fire-water 
is vibrating in one of his hollow teeth. Then they all 
indulge in a song. 

[The Warrior's Refrain.] 
Com.: Let there be peace among the nations. 
Chief: O yes, we have now plenty rations. 
Com.: What have you done, you miserable wretches. 
Cut off the head of Uncle Sam without patches. 
Chief: Not '* mushee'' trouble ''dat," father Abraham, 
Poor Lo can " fixee " head on dat it matches. 
With porous plaster and a well-smoked ham. 
Stick on these shoulders, head of pale face nation. 
A cabbage head like '' that " serves well for our ration. 
Com.: Behold the Indian tribe a part of our nation. 
In surgery au fait they spoil our doctors' occupation. 
Ch. and C: We are a conglomerated hotch-potch nation. 
Chineese, Indians, negroes and whites from all creation. 
Beggars, gamblers and knaves, fill our national pools. 



And politicians use our honest men as their tools. 39 
O land of boasted freedom, land of shams, 
True happiness is but an empty name. 
Chief: Now is our Uncle Sam in Ouod. 
Com.: And the red man's tribe is a bad lot. 

During this convivial piocess, one of the whisky en- 
livened Indian chiefs has a little sport with our Sutler's 
lassies. They sing: [In Clover.] 

Chief : Where shall we three meet again ? 
M'ar.: We shall meet — by the brook. 
Providing — no ill-luck, 
And no black — midnight-spook 
Keeps us back — from this nook. 
All sing chorus. Indian chief swings the flag-pole 
with ham. We are coming, 

We are coming. 
Father Abraham, 
Coming with a ham. 
[Indian Chief, Marguerite and Kate sing.] 
We love — we love the dear red man. 
And so thus too, our Uncle Sam. 
We makeshrfcwd laws and frame wise saws, 
And fill the Indian Commissioner's maws. 
Then drive poor Lo from his native land. 
With bread and ham and whisky rank. 
Indian swings pole on which sticks ham, while all join 
chorus: We are coming 

We are coming, 
Father Abraham, 
Coming with a ham. 
Now the valiant captain of the U. S. A., having suffi- 
ciently recovered from his fears of being scalped, indul- 
ges in a song : [Our Civil Service Reform.] 
Capt.: I am a captain in oi^r Uncle's army, 
Commissioned by a Congress lobby. 
I labored hard with politics, 
And drilled the boys with whisky sticks. 
At home I played the deuce with bummers. 
And had a squad of voting drummers. 
I thus installed our Congress hnbby, 
And he got me in through the lobby, 
In war or peace I am a brick. 
And always live by cheek and tick. 
So if you want a captain be. 
Pray come and see our Uncle's chief D. 
Chor.: Whoever would a captain be. 

Must see our Uncle's chief deputy. 
Capt.: Then frighten not at spectre's looming. 

Our country is still onwards booming. 
Chor.: Then frighten not at spectre's looming. 

Our country is still onwards booming. 
Chief: I am a monarch 'mid these forest trees, 
And I command an army of wild beasts. 
I, as the General of the Indian Nation, 
Must see that my warriors get rations. 
Chor.: We must see that they get plenty rations, 

Else they take our scalps with indignation. 
Chief: We are the left-handed sons of this nation. 
Therefore, we must be touched with care and patience. 
We have papooses, proud braves and humble squaws, 
Whisky and national ham fill our maws. 
Chorus: We are coming. 
• We ai"e coming, 
Father Abraham, 

Coming with a ham. The End. 

Errata. — On 2d page, read Tableaux VI instead of IV, 



MULTUM IN Parvo.— The til St libretto is partially an idealistic composition, and 
is a paraphrase of Milton's great poem of kindred name. But in this canto the 
ideas are clothed in different language and new material is added. In fact, onh 
the tirst act has any resemblance or suggestion of that great author's work. In 
this composition is also a different result\irrived at. showing that mankin^ has 
progressed from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous— Irom the lower form of 
organization to the higher form — both mentally and physically. 

The second libretto' presents a phase of Western life, neai one of the military 
forts of the United States, portraying the oddities of our compatriots who have 
emigrated from the old world to the new. ' 

The author reserves to himself and his assigns the additional' right to publicly 
perform these dramatic compositions and to further dramatise the same. Music 
composers and theatre managers can negotiatewith the author. 

\VM. BUSH, at nii Clark Avenue. St. Louis, Mo. 



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lOli FAMILY BESEJIBLAXCE. 




1 and my lou^ij-eared coUaboratour, Lord A'^iiius, have concocted this hom- 
a>opathio dose of cerebral peppermint collation. As I am in doubt, 1 leave 
it to the vd.v populi to say: Who between us twain furnished the ori>jinal 
matter and who did the mere compiling-. For my own part I have «j:reat 
respect for the creative jrenius of his Lordship, particularly in case I were 
cornered near tiic aft part ot liis body, commonly known as Ins hind hoofs ; 
thus I wish not to make any invidious distinction between myself and my lono^- 
eared confrere. Human nature in all its phases is amply illustrated by him, 
and you will coincide with me by looking on his pliiz ami that of the aenus 
/loino, whom you meet in your daily walk, to wit : (.Mind this to wit, the legal 
parlance of the loco-foco). The pri>ud chevaliers who kick you when you are 
down. The knights who to enrich their coffers wouldn't scrupple to rob a 
coftin of its shroud. The lon>;- earcti, verdant imd pulpy headed man and 
brother, who on moon-lit niglits ambles pas* your threshold, linked to a 
sweet-eyed damsel (wliose face is albeit hulen ilown with a truck full ot cos- 
metics) spinning out his wheedling vocalism, fraught with surface love. 

Like a meandering brook, it ripples from his lips, but alas ! like the water of 
the brook, it also vanishes-i)liantom like, iu tlie reality ot life. Nay you can 
trace this lordly profile in its myal state to its liiding place amid the aren.n of 
politicians, and even to the gilded palac»'s— shaded with classic dust and wise 
see-saws— hitclied to a ponderous "if — of our tioi-tiisant statesmen and the 
bench-show masquerading in their ermine. Need 1 ask you ? to compare the 
pensive, sad look of my noble Lord, and that of the gilded lover, or of that 
household article called, hen-pecked- husband, and you will say amen to my 
trist saying. Look at tlxe man who walks off on his ear, when you ask him 
to loan 'you a dollar. The ft How who is staving mad and ready to kick 
your posterior part, if you ask him to pay you. that little bill he owes you. 
Or look at the thoughtless stubborn boy who kicks asunder the paternal har- 
ness, or even the Stoic who with sardonic smile derides the miseries, as well 
as the joys of life ; and to complete the picture beliold the *' bys and gals " 
who grind their daily oats, like their long-eared prototype, unconcerned of 
hail or snow, storm or sunshuie. Vour cerebral machinery, if well oiled, 
will then affirm, that all these are grains of character which can be found iu 
the noble bidk of the jackass. 

ralinam qui meruit ferat. (.iivc me the Tin. 

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